Quotes for All
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, … Read more
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
By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System … Read more
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. Ezra Pound
Technique is the test of sincerity. Ezra Pound
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. Evan Parker
Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons. Eugene H. Peterson
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
Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious. Esther Perel
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical – there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera. Erland Josephson