#technique

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#i #jerry #just #me #movie

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#analysis #attempt #century #implicit #interest

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#skills #specific #takes #technique #very

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#ethics #leadership #management #mere #politics

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

#inspiration #method #more #much #technique

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#carried #coding #creates #future #generation

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. ↗

— Richard Pound

#accidental #active #cheating #complex #complicity

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

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver! ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#critical #entire #entire universe #essential #extreme

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