This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.
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.
It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.
The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.
Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.
The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.
There's a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.
Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.