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Quotes About Technique

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.
~ John French Sloan
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.
~ Joe Locke
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
~ Danny Meyer
My set comes with a smaller fin in the back, i find this helps me release off the top a lot easier
~ Julian Wilson
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
~ Vladimir Horowitz
I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.
~ Sammy Sosa
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
~ Stan Musial
When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.
~ Buddy Guy
I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
~ Sadaharu Oh
I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.
~ Jerry Coleman
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
~ Walter Hagen
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
~ Christopher Lee
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Writing is a craft not an art.
~ William Zinsser
Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.
~ La Meri
The bicycle kick is not easy to do.
~ Pele
I explained that unschooling isn't a technique; it's living and learning naturally, lovingly, and respectfully together.
~ Jan Hunt
Winners don't do different things, they just do things differently" is his philosophy of Life.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
By the time the arachne caught up with them in Kejesli's quarters, Maggy found layli-layli calulan in the midst of an elaborate lie. Like Maggy, layli-layli took advantage of Kejesli's lack of knowledge of her culture, a lack Maggy did not share. Nothing new in technique, Maggy noted, but she recorded it for her growing file on lying, for its style and for its purpose, which she hoped might become clear.
~ Janet Kagan
Continue to wrap these wires around the circle of the bead, applying pressure on the wire. Ensure that each of the new layers is wrapped beneath the previous layer.
~ Janice Love
Now clip the unwanted parts of your wire, and allow about 1.5 inches of wire to each of the sides to finish the ring with.
~ Janice Love