#technique

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway. ↗

— Brian May

#as far as #basic #concerned #far #gadgets

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

#completely #exist #i #i see #i think

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. ↗

— Bode Miller

#boarding #boarding school #coaches #good #had

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves. ↗

— David Milne

#believe #chips #develop #enable #end

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#famous #faulkner #make #most #our

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#far #however #impossible #inherent #least

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#certain #could #disciplined #emotions #literature

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#appears #being #embedded #form #i