#technique

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. ↗

— John Fahey

#i #never #teachers #technique #them

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#beyond #category #get #ideas #into

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. ↗

— Ken Burns

#bass #bass players #become #cult #drummers

The principles underlying propaganda are extremely simple. Find some common desire, some widespread unconscious fear or anxiety; think out some way to relate this wish or fear to the product you have to sell; then build a bridge of verbal or pictorial symbols over which your customer can pass from fact to compensatory dream, and from the dream to the illusion that your product, when purchased, will make the dream come true. They are selling hope. We no longer buy oranges, we buy vitality. We do not just buy an auto, we buy prestige. And so with all the rest. In toothpaste, for example, we buy not a mere cleanser and antiseptic, but release from the fear of being sexually repulsive. In vodka and whisky we are not buying a protoplasmic poison which in small doses, may depress the nervous system in a psychologically valuable way; we are buying friendliness and good fellowship, the warmth of Dingley Dell and the brilliance of the Mermaid Tavern. With our laxatives we buy the health of a Greek god. With the monthly best seller we acquire culture, the envy of our less literate neighbors and the respect of the sophisticated. In every case the motivation analyst has found some deep-seated wish or fear, whose energy can be used to move the customer to part with cash and so, indirectly, to turn the wheels of industry. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#manipulation #propaganda #sales-techniques #dreams

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty. ↗

— Paul Parker

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Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique. ↗

— Leonard Bacon

#dull #effort #game #given #idiot

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days. ↗

— Matthew Bright

#days #detection #first #fish #followed

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#everything #feel #giving #giving back #good