Techniques Quotations

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

Some days, I know beauty techniques like it's my job, and other days I can't do my makeup for the life of me. So I find it easiest to just put on mineral veil and a little mascara and call it a day. I use Physician's Formula and Bare Minerals every day of my life.

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

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.

During the 1950s, I decided, as did many others, that many practical problems were beyond analytic solution and that simulation techniques were required. At RAND, I participated in the building of large logistics simulation models; at General Electric, I helped build models of manufacturing plants.

Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres.

Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance.

Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.

'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist.

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.

In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.

Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.

It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing.

The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.

I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.

We believe that the completion techniques that further improved our drilling economics in Johnson County can be applied to our acreage in the western counties where we have seen improved drilling results over the past three months. This provides the assurance to actively pursue development in these areas.

There are construction techniques that you can remove those walls, and lift them out, and set them in other locations.

We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.

When I was injured I could see all the ways that Stuart was motivating the other players and the techniques he was using. I just wanted to be a part of it.

We found exceptional, innovative approaches to ensuring rapid treatment of patients, ... We used management techniques and flow charts to define achievable times for each step.

We know what techniques work best and what technology people should use for any particular brief.

Worlds of Healthy Flavors builds on a decade of initiatives at the CIA that have made the techniques and flavor dynamics of cuisines from the Mediterranean and Asia to Latin America more accessible to American foodservice. From ideas about how to highlight produce and whole grains to how to use flavor that relies less on saturated fats and more on spices, aromatics and unsaturated plant oils--these world cuisines represent a phenomenal resource, and one that is a major focus of this initiative.

When everybody starts broadcasting games the way 'Monday Night Football' did, then 'Monday Night Football' is not as exceptional and unique as it once was. You can turn on ESPN 2 now and see the same techniques being used for the Kent State-Akron game.

We are helping companies large and small compete through demand-driven supply networks. This conference allows users to share the best techniques with each other, and gives our developers an opportunity to meet with users face-to-face.

We've been in recently to quite a few creative agencies talking about what we can do from an outdoor perspective. We're not taking over from them, but we work closely with them. Our role is helping to bring campaigns to life using techniques and technology they might not be aware of.

We rather think it was some personal interplay between the people, who perhaps knew each other. Certainly they were fighting and uncontrollable, and clearly the calming techniques which we teach our cabin crews didn't work. Diversion was the only option.

The extreme conditions of a long underwater mission are similar to those of space, ... This mission presents aquanauts and physicians with an unprecedented opportunity to test state-of-the-art remote medical techniques in real-time and real-life situations. Someday, these techniques could be used in long-duration, manned space flights.

The prototype of the academy is ready. We will have sports icons from other games too for imparting the best of skills and techniques to youngsters. Besides fitness, the focus will be on consistency in performance to remain on top in a competitive environment.

We're similar builds, so he helps me in and out of my routes. He shows me little veteran techniques that I probably didn't know a couple years ago.

Many SWANA members have dealt with the solid waste generated in natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes, ... I think we can pull together a compendium of the most effective techniques that can be used in the areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Somebody invariably asks a question that I can't answer. That pushes me to learn something else about bass fishing. Every year I'm amazed at the new techniques bass pros come up with to fool fish. We're really pushing the envelope on fishing skills.

Sibley was a representative of rural Pennsylvania with roots deep in the local soil. His innovative techniques on his farm along the Allegheny River gained worldwide attention. This is a man who had a significant amount of influence from our area.

Since it is hard to wholly change the skills of adult skaters, we should train the youth from the very beginning to learn the techniques from the South Koreans. If everything goes well, the next generation of skaters may have more chance to catch up with the world.

Most people say the easy oil has been found. So these techniques are not only attractive, they're absolutely mandatory to keep the oil flowing.

Max has all the tools to be a great offensive lineman in this league. It's just a matter of working hard and learning the techniques of the position.

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

New Voices has found another batch of winners: scrappy, innovative, diverse citizen journalists who are inventing new ways to generate information and ideas for their communities. The techniques and models they are creating will help to renew American democracy.

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

I came up with a unique twist on standard instruction techniques and I felt that this would make a really big difference. So I partnered with a couple of filmmakers in Hollywood and we made the DVD.

Basic self-defense classes teach you 200 different techniques for 200 different situations, and the martial arts teach intricate techniques that require practice, but will prove to be more effective.

I'm an academic and an applied mathematician who studies the control of movement. I've used the mechanical engineering techniques to alter the dynamics of the bikes.

I have spent more than a decade developing the calibration techniques we needed to obtain this result.

I have been intimately involved in the techniques of genetic modification as a scientist since GMOs were first conceived. In that time, hundreds of studies and tests have been done on GMO safety - and we've seen no scientific evidence that GMOs are inherently more dangerous than crops produced by traditional plant breeding.

I firmly believe that reading is essential to developing writing skills. Reading exposes the reader to the ideas of the authors, not only to varying subject matter content, but also to various styles and techniques for presenting the content.

I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can also be used when writing non-fiction.

Growing things in a sustainable manner is important and growing things organically is important. I'd like children and students to know that it's important and why it is important. You don't want to eat poison. Frankly, the farming techniques in this country are very polluting and they end up in people's bodies. It's not a healthy situation. If you teach it to young children, it stays with them.

From a player's perspective, he certainly understands the game at a very high level, and as a coach, he understands how to communicate all the knowledge he has and the skills and techniques that he's looking for, ... I think the search was very successful. Kevin is an outstanding young coach.

If a youth becomes belligerent, combative, difficult to handle, some techniques may be used such as a knee strike, strike to the arm if the youth becomes unmanageable.

From the time that we built this training facility in 1993, to now, there has been a lot of advancement in terms of training techniques helping players deal with heat-related issues. Having a climate-controlled environment is very helpful in that regard, to be able to break up the routine, account for more predictability in terms of the schedule.

If the applications are more compatible with Vista than 2000, then it might be less costly. Migration techniques have gotten better, but most organizations have not automated their migration process.

He is a rare example of a musician able to combine the different techniques of choral and symphonic conducting, and this allows him to lead the vast musical forces required to perform some compositions.

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

We're opposed to all these techniques because they're inherently intrusive and irreversible, and they give doctors a lot of control. It's like throwing gas on a fire.

What I like so very much about this meditation is that you can take what you've learned and go about your business, ... I can use those classroom techniques anywhere, which is ideal for me as a filmmaker.

We take them to another level of knowledge after the students already have some driving experience on their own, teaching them additional driving techniques and an understanding of what that several-thousand-pound hunk of metal is doing under the simple laws of physics.

Having been a linebacker in college, I feel I have an advantage because I can easily associate with my guys. I can understand what they see and experience on the playing field, and it helps me teach them how to react and what techniques to use.

He's a great self-motivator, no doubt about it. Whatever little techniques and tricks he has, it certainly works, up to this point, anyway.

There are no show stoppers that we've seen out there, ... The issue that may come up is the degree to which feasible repair techniques are available on this mission.

Huntington is a great town with much to offer the manufacturing industry. There are many people with great manufacturing skill sets in this region and we have utilized the same manufacturing techniques and supply infrastructure from the old business to augment our knowledge of science to create new technologies.

Hunters in this stage are always learning new techniques and improving their skills in an effort to become better hunters. They tend to be more focused on one targeted species and spend countless hours in the field. They are usually more interested in applying management and harvest techniques, such as intensive fertilization of forage crops or limiting the buck harvest in a deer herd to improve age structure and antler production.

He knows he has a lot to learn as far as football techniques and he is looking forward to that.

There are so many things, techniques and fundamentals they've got to change versus different looks and different people. The same old technique is not going to work for this play like it did for that play.

I would think the networks would look to partner and encourage experimentation with techniques that involve the viewer and discourage them to skip the commercials.

I would say that in the last three or so practices, we're starting to see some quickness ? quickness in the different techniques he needs to use at that nose guard position.

Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.

It involved lots of changes in teaching techniques and we had to get the staff sold on the program.

I think the NIH made this decision probably without regard to that particular vote because they know that there are many other techniques that are being used and in some cases pioneered here.

I think we have to keep our eye on the ball here. If this stuff proves to work, that's wonderful. But we're just not there yet, and it's going to take a long time to demonstrate that. Meanwhile, other techniques already work well. So let's get on with it.

I think there's a lot more knowledge about kicking right now. Special teams coaches are more educated with the techniques for kickers to get better . . . With the success of a lot of soccer players, it's created a buzz with the soccer players to try (kicking) out.

I think there's a lot more knowledge about kicking right now, ... Special teams coaches are more educated with the techniques for kickers to get better . . . With the success of a lot of soccer players, it's created a buzz with the soccer players to try (kicking) out.

I think there are some people on the right who keep some distance from him, because they regard him as still radical. The techniques we developed at Ramparts live on. We deliberately tried to be provocative -- we went for the jugular, we could be nasty with our opponents.

I think so. The techniques of management are the same whether you run a clothing company or a football club. Management is the way you produce your product - your efficiency, your creativity, and the people you choose to make the dream come true. Now I stick to what I love for the moment - formula one. When I no longer have that love maybe I try football again.

Our goal is to push optical lithography as far as we can so the industry does not have to move to any expensive alternatives until absolutely necessary. This result is the strongest evidence to date that the industry may have at least seven years of breathing room before any radical changes in chip-making techniques would be needed.

Our work demonstrates a fundamental error in the current challenges to Darwinism. New techniques allowed us to see how ancient genes and their functions evolved hundreds of millions of years ago. We found that complexity evolved piecemeal through a process of Molecular Exploitation -- old genes, constrained by selection for entirely different functions, have been recruited by evolution to participate in new interactions and new functions.

Players have already adjusted to the rules changes from 2004. They've developed alternate techniques that can be effective but less likely to draw an illegal-contact flag.

Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.

Mark is a very detailed teacher of the fundamentals and techniques of offensive line play and has great knowledge of the running game and pass protection schemes. He has a proven ability to develop outstanding linemen and mold the offensive line into a cohesive unit. Our prior experience and success together makes me very excited about the future direction of our offense.

I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells.

I was quite surprised to find such a large quantity of older manufacturing techniques and machinery.