Quotes of: Technical-ability Keyword

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

Antonio Damasio

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in...

Andrew Marr

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Anchee Min

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A...

Al Franken

If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.

Divided & Conquered

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

A Deepness in the Sky

The Enlightened One, if he had meditated on it, would not necessarily have rejected a technical solution.

The Elementary Particles

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Yves Tanguy

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

Under the Dome

I went for a walk this morning because the evening was still asleep. Well technically so was I, but that didn’t stop me from exercising.

Xazaqazax

The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.

Brad Pitt

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

Natalia Makarova

Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.

Roger Deakins

You don't learn acting, you nourish it. I don't regret not going to drama school because I was very afraid of all the lessons. I'm allergic to technicality.

Romain Duris

Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.

Richard Engel

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

Randy Harrison

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

Steven Price

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Tom Stoppard

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Robin Wright