Quotes About Technique

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

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

I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

This habit of actively collecting examples of other people's foolish behavior is an invaluable antidote to idiocy. In fact, it's the second great anti-stupidity technique we should learn from Munger.

Marshall McLuhan was harsh but not wrong when he observed, "Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity." Recommitment often means putting your own sins on the table. Forbearance means acknowledging the wrongs that have been committed, and even the anger that they have created, but it puts

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

squeeze the clutch during a quick stop, so you can concentrate on the brakes and keep the engine from locking up the rear wheel.

It does seem to help to lean your torso toward the curve. You don't have to shift your butt to the inside of the saddle, just lean your torso forward and toward the curve. Some riders use the mirror as a reference point, leaning toward the inside and lining up the mirror with their cornering line. That happens to work nicely with countersteering, as you'll tend to pull the grips toward the curve as you lean your torso.

Sage advice about curves is go in slow, go out fast.

The delayed-apex line maximizes traction, helps guide you away from potential collisions, and gives you a better view around blind turns. If you like those advantages, adopt the delayed-apex line yourself.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

Good golf begins with a good grip.

The most important thing is not that my short game looks good, but that it feels good, because at the end of the day, what you need is to feel it, and I'm starting to feel it.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own.

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.