#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

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

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

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

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#get #nowhere #progress #reliance #secret

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