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Raymond Chandler quote: "Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion...."
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder. Raymond Chandler
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time. Joan Sutherland
Ezra Pound quote: "Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth..."
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! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique. Leonard Bacon
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. Jacques Ellul
William Friedkin quote: "Technique is of less interest than character and story."
Technique is of less interest than character and story. William Friedkin
Troy Vincent quote: "Technique is everything and we play a contact sport."
Technique is everything and we play a contact sport. Troy Vincent
Leon Trotsky quote: "Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who..."
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. Leon Trotsky
Rudolf Nureyev quote: "Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of..."
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. Rudolf Nureyev
Leonard Bernstein quote: "Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in..."
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. Leonard Bernstein
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, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your... Jiddu Krishnamurti
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising. Leo Ornstein
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list. Edgar Rice Burroughs
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--or, rather, there aren't any right people. B. F. Skinner
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 relating. Joyce Carol Oates

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