Technique Quotes - page 5

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. (Bruno Walter)

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Charlie Watts

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

David Lean

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

Deborah Bull

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Dennis Farina

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Dweezil Zappa

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Ethel Waters

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

Evan Parker

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Fay Godwin

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

Frank Vincent

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine. (Frankie Muniz)

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Gore Verbinski

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

Jim Lehrer

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

Joan Sutherland

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

James Cash Penney

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

Ken Burns

When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

Kuno Becker

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Katie Ledecky

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Leo Ornstein

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique. (Lennart Nilsson)

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

Lennart Nilsson

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

Mary Crosby

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

Michael E. Mann

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

Michael O'Brien

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