Quotes About Technique

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

will paint in pleasing colors." "How do you know which colors to use?" I asked. "There are instructions for each item on your workstation.

BETH READ THROUGH the report on her computer screen three times. This was something her father had taught her. Read through once for general conceptualization and then a second time for the nitty-gritty details. And then read it a final time, at least an hour after the first reading, but do so out of order, which forced your mind and your eyes from their comfort zones.

Running is the same way. Learn it wrong, and you'll never know how good it can feel.

it's like in life, you have obstacles and you train to overcome them. You search for the best technique. You keep the best, you repeat it, and then you get better.

Me doblé sobre la cuerda, agitando las piernas conforme lo arrastraba. Soltó la cuerda y salí disparado. «Bien —dijo—. Cada vez que corras, recuerda la sensación de la cuerda tensada. Ayudará a que mantengas los pies debajo de tu cuerpo, tus caderas dirigidas hacia delante y tus talones fuera de la imagen.» Eric

los mejores maratonistas del mundo corrían como niños de jardín de infancia. «Si ves a niños corriendo en el patio de recreo, notas cómo sus pies aterrizan justo debajo de ellos mismos y luego se impulsan hacia atrás

A la segunda semana, Eric ya estaba enviándome a hacer recorridos de dos horas; su único consejo era que me mantuviera atento a la técnica y mantuviera un ritmo relajado, lo suficiente para que pudiera respirar a ratos con la boca cerrada (cincuenta años atrás, Arthur Lydiard dio un consejo equivalente aunque opuesto para controlar el pulso cardíaco y el ritmo: «No corras tan rápido que no puedas mantener una conversación»).

I want to be known as a good bowler … My ambition is to dominate … What I'm always after is penetration,' he'd once remarked. Within a few short months his textbook technique, iron will and unshakable self-confidence had convinced even the most sceptical that his targets were well within his scope.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

What sort of scientists are they whose main technique is sociability and whose main instrument is themselves? What can we expect from them but charged prose and pretty theories?

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it's a good technique.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

At last she got it: concept is incidental; execution is all.

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

I'd watch Edwin van der Sar and try and steal things with my eyes from how he played, because he wasn't all muscles and was a similar build to me.

There are two proper ways to use garlic: pounding and blooming. Neither involves a press, which is little more than a torture device for a beloved ingredient, smushing it up into watery squiggles of inconsistent size that will never cook evenly or vanish into a vinaigrette. If you have one, throw it away!

Great players are very good technically, but they also have a huge amount of character because, without it, you will never get to see that great technique because it vanishes under pressure.

I need more left-footed goals. And shooting from outside the box - I need more variance of finishes.

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

I think what pace bowlers need to do in T20 cricket is not just run up and bowl fast. It's not about brute pace in T20, it's about the variation.

After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

If you bowl good yorkers in nets and come up with good variation, it helps your on-field performance.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.