Definition of Technique

Technique

Same as Technic, n.

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

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
Morihei Ueshiba

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

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

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
W. H. Auden

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler

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

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
Edvard Munch

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
Ethel Waters

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
Vivienne Westwood

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
John Fahey

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

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.
Frank Shorter

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
Josef Albers

If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.
Bill Bruford

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
Bill Bruford

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
Bela Lugosi

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
Alec Baldwin

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang

Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
Ninette de Valois

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
James Cash Penney

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
Carol Kane

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
Frank Stella

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

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
Sargent Shriver

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
Nina Simone

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
Charlie Watts

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Technique Translations

technique in Dutch is techniek
technique in French is technique
technique in German is technisch, Methode/Verfahren, Technik
technique in Italian is tecnica
technique in Latin is ars; artis
technique in Swedish is teknik

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