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Quotes About Technique

I just tell myself to focus on the technique, focus on the work ahead.
~ Hidilyn Diaz
I try to show good technique - boxing technique, wrestling technique, jiu jitsu technique.
~ Andrei Arlovski
The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way.
~ William Hurt
I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
~ Alexandr Dolgopolov
I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.
~ Stewart Copeland
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
~ Leo Ornstein
The best way to learn sweep picking is to first isolate the right- and left-hand techniques, master them separately and then coordinate them.
~ John Petrucci
If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.
~ Michael Moschen
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.
~ Michel Faber
Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.
~ Nasser Hussain
Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.
~ Tony Robinson
I want to work on more man press techniques and be able to move around.
~ Shaquill Griffin
I wanted to make '13 Assassins' in the old manner, to use old techniques and not to rely on modern-day ones such as CGI, or editing that changes the speed.
~ Takashi Miike
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.
~ Santiago Calatrava
I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.
~ Merce Cunningham
I learned through the 'Jack Nicklaus Lesson Tee,' the cartoon. Back then, it was 1970 or '69 when it came out. Learned the grip that way and everything in the cartoon... So that's kind of how it all started for me.
~ John Daly
I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.
~ Molly Sims
Ever since my early teens, I've tried to swing the driver very fast. Back then, it was as fast as I could. But now that I'm 24, I'm working to dial back some of that speed, knowing I have an extra gear if needed. The goal is to protect myself from injuries down the road - especially to my back.
~ Xander Schauffele
Beauty works when one is in her teens. Between the ages 55 and 60, it's the technique and the personality of the dancer that captivates the audience.
~ Shobana
'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.
~ Steve Albini
McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.
~ Jake Tapper
Technique is the main thing when it comes to success at the top level. The sound temperament comes into work only when you have a sound technique.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
In my eyes, baking and pastry-making is like a science - all the measuring of quantities and temperatures.
~ Rick Stein