Quotes and Sayings About Technique

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Jumping #Technique #Birth Control

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
-- Adam Baldwin

#Technique #Captivating #Stills

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
-- Adrian Belew

#Vocabulary #Appreciate #Technique

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Passion #Dancer #Technique

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
-- Agnes de Mille

#Dance #Ballet #Technique

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
-- Agrippina Vaganova

#Dance #Expression #Technique

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Art #Technique #Way

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Attitude #Important #Technique

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
-- Alain Resnais

#Technique #Film #Used

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
-- Alan Chadwick

#Perfection #Technique #Invisible

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
-- Alan Hirsch

#People #Church #Technique

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Technique #Brilliant #Problem

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
-- Alastair Reynolds

#Lying #Technique #Ancient

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
-- Albert Claude

#Cells #Technique #Brutality

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
-- Aldo Rossi

#Technique #Architecture #Surprise

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Play #Age #Technique

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Years #People #Technique

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Secret #Technique #Masters

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.
-- Alexander Calder

#Cutting #Artist #Technique

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
-- Alexandr Dolgopolov

#Technique #Classic #Changed

One day the clean technique will come to my head
-- Alexei Yagudin

#One Day #Technique

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#Cutting #Artist #Technique

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.
-- Alfred Aho

#Learning #Creating #Technique

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
-- Allen Tate

#Religion #Technique #Sole

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
-- Alton Brown

#Technique #Sound #Useless

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Technique #Use #Actors

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. It's more instinctive rather than anything else. I don't do the calculated rehearsed kind of approach, and I hope that I can continue that because I believe that instinct is much stronger and greater when you are performing on camera.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Believe #Stronger #Technique

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.
-- Andreas Feininger

#Art #Successful #Technique

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.
-- Andrew Sullivan

#War #President #Technique

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Technique #Would Be #Superficial