#technique

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#contrary #higher #improved #norm #technique

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

#applied #distinctly #mainly #mathematical #mathematics

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#because #diligently #glad #guitar #guitar players

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique. ↗

— Jewel

#britney spears #dollars #gold #hit #hours

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#game #injuries #just #our #part

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. ↗

— Fay Wray

#admit #clutches #cover #created #deserted

He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#came #everything #first #his #how

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#coward #emulate #envied #his #i

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#technique #death

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law." (Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel, 1949) ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#mysteries #solution #technique #writing #writing-craft