82 Inspirational Quotes About Technique (SKILL)

Top 10 Most Famous Quotes About Technique (BEST)

“The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.”
Georg Simmel

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. - Leon Trotsky — Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. – Leon Trotsky

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. - Pablo Casals — The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. – Pablo Casals

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. - Jacques Ellul — Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. – Jacques Ellul

The first thing is to have the will, the rest is technique. - Halldor Laxness — The first thing is to have the will, the rest is technique. – Halldor Laxness

To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique. - Stephen Nachmanovitch — To create, we need both technique and **freedom** of technique. – Stephen Nachmanovitch

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. - Leonard Bernstein — Technique is **communication**: the two words are synonymous in conductors. – Leonard Bernstein

Technique is the test of sincerity. - Ezra Pound — Technique is the test of **sincerity**. – **Ezra Pound**

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. - Jean De La Bruyere — Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to **truth**. – Jean De La Bruyere

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self assertion. - Eric Hoffer — A **successful** social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self assertion. – Eric Hoffer

10 Thought-Provoking Quotes About Technique

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
Man Ray

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage. - John Bolton — Negotiation is not a policy. It’s a technique. It’s something you use when it’s to your advantage, and something that you don’t use when it’s not to your advantage. – John Bolton

You learn techniques to understand principles. When you understand the principles, you will create your own techniques. - Alain Gehin — You **learn** techniques to understand principles. When you understand the principles, you will create your own techniques. – Alain Gehin

“I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.”
Lee Iacocca

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it. Don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses. - Nelson Shanks — If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it. Don’t develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses. – Nelson Shanks

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. - Rudolf Nureyev — Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. – Rudolf Nureyev

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless. - Immortal Technique — The **purpose** of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless. – Immortal Technique

Technique is of less interest than character and story. - William Friedkin — Technique is of less interest than **character** and story. – William Friedkin

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like. - Fay Godwin — I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. – Fay Godwin

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that. - Katie Ledecky — I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I’m not feeling good – work on technique or something like that. – Katie Ledecky

5 Quotes About Technique in Sports

“The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.”
Jwala Gutta

Perfecting your form and technique at early stages will go a long way. Don't compromise on the big lifts - deadlifts, squats, and bench-presses. - Ronnie Coleman — Perfecting your form and technique at early stages will go a long way. Don’t **compromise** on the big lifts – deadlifts, squats, and bench-presses. – **Ronnie Coleman**

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique. - Usain Bolt — All I have to do is to work on transition and technique. – **Usain Bolt**

“Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not only spend countless hours fine-tuning technique on the course, but also improving strength, stability, and endurance in the gym.”
Paige Spiranac

“You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”
Michael Jordan

4 Quotes About Technique in Teaching

“I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.”
Jacques Pepin

“Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.”
G. H. Hardy

“Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.”
Tony Buzan

“Great teaching is the ability to distinguish between what can and needs to be explained and what cannot be explained. The working of a computer needs to be explained as it is made by the human mind. But a butterfly need not always be explained. A butterfly has to be seen with gleaming eyes of wonder as it is a natural expression of life and not of the mind. Great teaching is more like a craft than a technique. To evoke the curiosity in the learner, to care for the learner and to take the learner on a journey of discovery are some of the most critical elements of this craft.”
Debashis Chatterjee

4 Quotes About Technique in Management and Leadership

“I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft – meaning experience – there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.”
Henry Mintzberg

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching. - Danny Meyer — Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for **leadership**, guidance, and **coaching**. – Danny Meyer

“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.”
Lewis H. Lapham

“Empowerment isn’t a buzzword among leadership gurus. It’s a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.”
John Rampton

12 Quotes About Technique in Arts

“Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create. Technique will give way to expression!”
Sergei Bongart

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. - Pablo Picasso — The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. – **Pablo Picasso**

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. - Jackson Pollock — It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. – Jackson Pollock

“The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.”
Robert Olen Butler

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easily if you think of something besides technique. - Paul Gauguin — With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easily if you think of something besides technique. – Paul Gauguin

Technical achievement without vision is only craft. - Carole Katchen — Technical achievement without vision is only craft. – Carole Katchen

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. - Jackson Pollock — You can’t learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. – Jackson Pollock

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured. - Rafael Sabatini — Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured. – Rafael Sabatini

I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don't you Like learning to draw before you paint. - Iris Murdoch — I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don’t you? Like learning to draw before you paint. – Iris Murdoch

In love as in art, good technique helps. - Mason Cooley — In **love** as in art, good technique helps. – Mason Cooley

Without passion, there is not art, only technique. - Mary Robinette Kowal — Without **passion**, there is not art, only technique. – Mary Robinette Kowal

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant. It was what was coming across. - Bill Sienkiewicz — To me, the technique was almost irrelevant. It was what was coming across. – Bill Sienkiewicz

5 Quotes About Technique in Writing and Literature

“Many writers, good writers who ought to know better, focus so tightly on the structure demanded by a crime story that they lose track of the fact that they are writing a novel. Accusations of both sensationalism and trivialization are, alas, often justified.”
Laurie R. King

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. - Marianne Moore — If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. – Marianne Moore

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. - Iris Murdoch — Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. – Iris Murdoch

Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view. - Carmen Maria Machado — Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view. – Carmen Maria Machado

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. - Lawrence Durrell — **Poetry** is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. – Lawrence Durrell

4 Quotes About Technique in Meditation

“Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.”
Eckhart Tolle

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

“Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It’s not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That’s what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.”
Amit Ray

4 Quotes About Technique in Cooking

“I’m not a chef. I haven’t created any new technique in the kitchen. I’m not a rocket scientist. I think I’m good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That’s what I think I’m good at.”
Rachael Ray

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. - Julia Child — Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. – Julia Child

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook - Frances Mayes — There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? – Frances Mayes

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

5 Quotes About Technique in Music

“You can admire people for sure, and they’re worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.”

Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character. - Henry Mancini — Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character. – Henry Mancini

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. - Bruno Walter — By **concentrating** on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. – Bruno Walter

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. - Herbie Hancock — The value of **music** is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. – Herbie Hancock

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. - Renee Fleming — Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. – Renee Fleming

2 Quotes About Technique in Acting

“The technique’s many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.”
Kevin Kline

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralyzing stage fright. - William Hurt — The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralyzing stage fright. – William Hurt

3 Quotes About Technique in Dancing

“To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.”

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham — Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. – **Martha Graham**

Style in dancing, as in everything else in life, is immensely more important than technique. - Clifton Webb — Style in **dancing**, as in everything else in life, is immensely more important than technique. – Clifton Webb

3 Quotes About Technique in Martial Arts

Remember, you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique. - Bruce Lee — Remember, you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique. – **Bruce Lee**

Lock it out so you can perform your movement, disarm, or technique. - Burton Richardson — Lock it out so you can perform your movement, disarm, or technique. – Burton Richardson

In combat, spontaneity rules. Rote performance of technique perishes. - Bruce Lee — In combat, spontaneity rules. Rote performance of technique perishes. – Bruce Lee

2 Quotes About Technique in Comedy

“I use a Bruce Lee technique: ‘The way of no way.’ He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything – to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.”
Eddie Izzard

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. - Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

9 Quotes About Technique That Will Make You Think

“Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.”
Rajneesh

Animation is a technique, not a genre. - Gore Verbinski — Animation is a technique, not a genre. – Gore Verbinski

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. - James MacGregor Burns — Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. – James MacGregor Burns

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
Eve Arnold