Quotes of: Technique Keyword

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

A Technique for Producing Ideas

Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions.

Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know

If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.

Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of .

Joyce Carol Oates

You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter...having lost the song, w...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Tom Colicchio

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques: A Complete Guide for the Artist

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish

What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.

Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know

Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.

Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people--...

Walden Two

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new n...

Masaharu Morimoto

There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent m...

Gelsey Kirkland

What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the partial results of science may become more intelligible.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.

A Technique for Producing Ideas

For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and that the counterparty is a little crazy.

Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know

Be within your heart. See and feel with your heart. Recognize your heart within another. Speak words from the heart. Receive the words of another, within those precious chambers.

Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can'...

Stephen Hunter

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: th...

Jacques Pepin