#technique

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#educational #everyone #heart #his #methods

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#technique #transition #work

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#best #close #dad #gives #good

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. ↗

— Idries Shah

#technique #understanding #motivational

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗

— John Gardner

#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else. ↗

— Carson V. Heady

#how-to-sell #learning-to-sell #sales-coach #sales-concepts #sales-help

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

— Bill Bruford

#bits #classic #gaping #holes #i

I have no guitar technique. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#i #technique

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