Technique Quotes

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

Spirit first, technique second.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Judo is a study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

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.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

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.

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.