Quotes About Technique

to incrementally condense the external manifestation of the technique, while keeping true to its essence. Over time, expansiveness decreases, while potency increases. I call this method 'making smaller circles.

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

La niña comenzó a golpear como él le había enseñado, con la base del puño, como si fuera un martillo. —Nunca con los nudillos. Con los nudillos solo pegan los perdedores. Quizá golpeen más fuerte, pero solo pegarán un par de veces antes de tener la mano hinchada e inservible —le había aleccionado.

Nuestra época no cree en la vida más allá de la muerte por miedo a lo desconocido, por miedo a la existencia de una realidad que se hurte a su ciencia y a su técnica; y también porque, no creyendo en otra vida,se puede vivir esta como lo hacen los animales

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

I don't bowl indoors, as I bowl with full run-up.

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.

As an actor, your body is an instrument.

We've always had a very strong focus on the instrumentation, and our approach to our individual instruments.

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

Good pictures require more than good lighting.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Andar no es un deporte. El deporte es una cuestión de técnicas y de reglas, de resultados y de competición, y todo ello requiere un largo aprendizaje: conocer las posiciones, dominar los gestos adecuados. Y, mucho después, vienen la improvisación y el talento.

He inferred that persons desiring to train this faculty [of memory] must select places and form mental images of the things they wish to remember and store those images in the places, so that the order of the places will preserve the order of the things, and the images of the things will denote the things themselves, and we shall employ the places and images respectively as a wax writing-tablet and the letters written on it.2

in the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

I have always loved art and am an aspiring painter, and in early years when I was struggling to find a style, a wise teacher told me: "Just pick out an artist you like and copy him. You come to understand how he solved the problems you're struggling with and your own style will grow out of that in time.

knees. Wu used a pressure point technique. He dug the knuckles of his index fingers into both sides of Richardson's head, up and into the ear cavity under the cartilage, an area known as Triple Warmer 17. You need to get the right angle. Go full strength and you could kill someone. You needed precision here. Richardson

The Challenge of Whole Birds

The Link system is used to remember things in sequence only, and there are many things that must be remembered, or learned, in sequence.

The number of people who could deliver a kick to the balls with Aomame's mastery must have been few indeed. She had studied kick patterns with great diligence and never missed her daily practice.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.