Quotes About Technique

I try to look for tempo in my run-up to make sure my knees are lifting up instead of going long. That brings an energy to my run-up, try and make myself feel as tall as I can.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Let a woman learn only a handful of basic finishes for her meat, and she will become a cook instead of a housewife. Butter and cream, for example. What chicken is there - what veal, what pork - indeed, what shrimp, scallops, oysters, or clams, that will not come to a glorious end if, five minutes before they leave the stove, they are graced with a lump of butter and as many tablespoons of cream as can be spared?

His art is eccentricity, his aimHow not to hit the mark he seems to aim at,His passion how to avoid the obvious,His technique how to vary the avoidance.The others throw to be comprehended. HeThrows to be a moment misunderstood.

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

THE TECHNIQUE of a little individuality will be a little technique, however scrupulously elaborated it may be.

If I could see and really understand the essence of the life that is right around me I could with even such technique as I now command make masterpieces.

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Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.

Only by using everything and anything you know about the craft of storytelling can you make your talent forge story. For talent without craft is like fuel without an engine. It burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

People who work in slaughterhouses know that there is a spot on an animal's forehead to be found by drawing an imaginary line from the right ear to the left eye and another from the left ear to the right eye. They aim the killing blow an inch or two above the junction of this X. My uncle taught me that. He didn't work in a slaughterhouse, though. He just knew how to kill things.

born contrarian, Rockefeller insisted upon buying in declining markets and selling in rising ones. When accumulating a position, he bought stocks each time they declined an eighth of a point; when unwinding a position, he sold each time the stock rose an eighth of a point—a technique that gave him an average over an extended period.

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How long have you been over here?" Reacher asked. Because he wanted them back on track. Because answering questions eventually became a habit. Start with the easy ones, and work up to the hard ones. A basic interrogation technique. Again the two guys shared a glance, seeking each other's permission. On the one hand, and on the other hand.

Plique-à-jour, which means "windows of light," is one of the most stunning and difficult enameling techniques.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.