#technique

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#forget #inside #techniques #us

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

#advanced #attention #because #definitely #lose

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#control #cryptography #did #files #i

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#makes #mass #mass media #media #possible

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#anything #both #character #cinema #different

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#beginning #behind #cakes #career #coming

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

— Leon Trotsky

#markedly #mastered #most #noticed #technique

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#been #fiction #forty #forty years #recording

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ↗

— Edmund White

#experimental #i #i think #realism #sincerity

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#fiction writer #i #i think #nonfiction #novel