Quotes About Technique

To make fluffy scrambled eggs, the best trick is to whisk in a splash of water and nothing else. Cream, milk, and other liquids drag the eggs down!

A great trick for frying is to put a popcorn kernel in the oil, and when it pops, you're ready to fry.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal 'em. Take those hands.

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.

A period of wakefulness interrupting the normal course of sleep increases the likelihood of lucidity. In fact, the "morning nap" or "sleep interruption" technique, refined through several experiments conducted by the Lucidity Institute, is an extremely powerful method of stimulating lucid dreams. The technique simply requires you to wake from sleep one hour earlier than usual, stay awake for thirty to sixty minutes, then go back to sleep.

Tap into 'The Force' and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Inheritance adds complexity to a program, and, as such, it's a dangerous technique. As Java guru Joshua Bloch says, "Design and document for inheritance, or prohibit it." If a class isn't designed to be inherited from, make its members non-virtual in C++, final in Java, or non-overridable in Microsoft Visual Basic so that you can't inherit from it.

To minimize this, keep actors away from walls, place them against dark rather than light walls, position furniture or props to break up the shadows, and use diffusion to soften secondary lights.

In general, using a brighter, harder light from a greater distance away from the action will result in more even illumination than a softer unit closer to the subject.

I can do the Sky Hook, but I'm not confident with it.

Basically, everything I've learned on guitar, I've learned from listening to my favorite albums. I never had any formal training. My teachers were Dimebag Darrell and Slash and the guys in Rancid and Slayer.

The slide is tennis.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

My slider's been very, very good to me.

Everyone wants to talk about my slider, and how effective it is, but it really can't be without fastball command. It starts with my fastball, even if the slider is the pitch I want to get to.

I learned the slider out of desperation.

Despite the name, 'lift and coast' does not mean cruising. You're trying to be as fast as you can, and you're still going through the corner on the limit, but you have to approach the corner slightly differently; otherwise, you won't make the end of the race.

From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner - even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

If I'm proud of one thing in my playing, it's being able to slow it down and focus on the melody.

In the U.A.E., the wickets are on the slower side. You can't play through the line; you need to take your time and be patient.

I learnt the slower ball in the post-1992 period after I saw Franklin Stevenson of the West Indies in the county circuit. I would practice in the nets, hit people on the head, have the ball fly over the nets. I got it right after a lot of practice.