Quotes About Technique

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

Acting is learnt, not taught.

It's important on any English wicket to leave well.

The key to the fadeaway is your legs.

I know I have a strong arm, and sometimes I get to where I want to throw with my arm and not bring my legs.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Most of my game is not really based on explosiveness, but I've gotta have a little lift on my jumper.

I try to fight like a lightweight.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

Typically, with low-budget stop-motion, you can get away with a cartoony style.

It's one thing to read about how makeup is applied. It's another thing altogether to watch it being put on.

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

Master the basics and you will be a good operator.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

technique is an individually acquired and socially secured way of doing something; a science is a way of understanding how to do it in order to do it better.

delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn't matter.

Stance, grip, shoulder, anchor, peep, pull, and finish, Reece thought, reviewing the basics. As with anything in life, the best do the basics exceptionally well.

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster

He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

relatively wide stance—about the width of my shoulders between my heels—and gradually narrow it as the clubs shorten and the swing force decreases, to probably only 6 inches with the wedge. I effect this narrowing simply by moving the right foot closer to the left. In that way I maintain a constant relationship of the ball to my left heel. As I narrow my stance, I also "open" it by setting my left foot

For the Greeks, physical exercise was an ethic for developing freely and harmoniously the form and strength of the human body. For the Romans, it was a technique for increasing the legionnaire's efficiency. The Roman conception prevails today.

The great tendency of all persons who study techniques is to make distinctions. They distinguish between the different elements of technique, maintaining some and discarding others. They distinguish between technique and the use to which it is put. These distinctions are completely invalid and show only that he who makes them has understood nothing of the technical phenomenon. Its parts are ontologically tied together; in it, use is inseparable from being.