Technique Mastery Quotes

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

I believe a lot of techniques and stuff has to do with confidence, and I think as my confidence grows, everything else will grow as well.

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

I'm not a solid enough actor to have techniques.

I would study the best, the most flashy, the guys that had that flair, the guys that had that wow. I'd study those fighters, and I made up my mind that I'd be all of those at once.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

The best way to learn sweep picking is to first isolate the right- and left-hand techniques, master them separately and then coordinate them.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

Wrestling is something I feel really confident in now.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due to my technique.

If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want to hear what you have to offer.

You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body.