Technique Quotes

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. (Martha Graham)
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. View quote
G. H. Hardy
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done. View quote
John le Carré
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. View quote
John Singer Sargent
I don't have technique because I never learnt any. View quote
Emma Thompson
I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead. View quote
David Lynch
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. View quote
Pablo Casals
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again. View quote
Julia Child
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals the technique of the marketplace. View quote
Milton Friedman
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. (Pablo Picasso)
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. View quote
Erich Auerbach
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. View quote
Rudolf Nureyev
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? View quote
Frances Mayes
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. View quote
Jacques Pepin
Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. View quote
Alton Brown
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. View quote
Vera Wang
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. View quote
Richard Thompson
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. (Fay Wray)
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do. View quote
Betty Buckley
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes. View quote
Bill Bruford
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. View quote
Bill Toomey
When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli