Quotes About Technique

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Teach a cook a recipe and he'll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she'll improvise for a lifetime.

At all times it is better to have a method.

The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish teacher and thinker appears as a technique for the oppressed . . . It was upon the anvil of the Jewish community's relations with Rome that Jesus hammered out the vital content of his concept of love for one's enemy. Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.

Good form and technique is a means to an end - for example, your punches will be more powerful if done right - rather than the objective itself.

But Michelangelo did not want us to know how he learned to sculpt and, whatever the truth of the matter, he succeeded in suppressing it. The impression he wanted to pass down was that he just picked up the art of sculpture through sheer brilliance and inherent understanding of design; conceivably, that might even be correct.

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

It's not the technique, it's the method. It's not the words, it's the melody.

Holland, a recognized authority on teaching piano, recommends that all pianists "practice in their heads." A new composition, he says, should be first gone over in the mind.

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

Three reasons: you need to know how the technique fails, you need to be able to perform it under stress, and you have to lose your fear of discomfort." Discomfort. He means my fear of pain.

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