Quotes About Technique

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

Press-in crusts are a supposedly easy alternative to the rolled kind, but achieving an even, compacted layer all over isn't a no-brainer.

Clay... is my favorite surface.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

Playing on a low surface is always difficult for anyone to play their strokes. You need to be more of a grafter.

My experience on clay is less than possibly on hard and grass courts, but in terms of my game style and my physical abilities, I think there's no reason why I can't adapt well to the surface and really try to maximize what I can do well on clay.

I feel like I'm playing some of my best tennis on clay. I'm sliding a lot, moving a lot. I know how to adjust to the surface, so I'm loving the clay.

Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to slide.

I never thought make-up was like brain surgery.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

Was ist Magie anderes als eine Technik, die die meistens Menschen nicht verstehen - noch nicht oder nicht mehr ?

All pursuit of commodity production becomes at the same time pursuit of the exploitation of labour-power; but only capitalist commodity production is an epoch-making mode of exploitation, which in the course of its historical development revolutionizes the entire economic structure of society by its organization of the labour process and its gigantic extension of technique, and towers incomparably above all earlier epochs.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.