It was not physically draining, simply because I lacked the technique to work hard enough to get tired.
The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable.
If he subsequently lost the job, it was only because Broccoli decided that "he lacks the technique to cope with such a demanding part".
By Richard Brody January 14 , 2015The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable.
"And after that Horszowski supposedly turned to Serkin and said, 'Let's take him.' " Uchida puts it in her pithy way: "As a rule, the imaginative ones are lacking the technique and the ones that have good technique haven't got a clue.
All the ingredients of a fine biography have been assembled lovingly, but Ms Fitch lacks the technique to turn them into a satisfying, well-seasoned dish worthy of a gastronomic icon.
Overall England lacked the techniques to cope with the bounce more than anything, for there was scarcely any lateral movement.
Like the fiscal cliff, the argument that is sure to ensue around the debt ceiling is a manufactured one: a creation of a Washington lacking the techniques to make basic political compromises, ruled by petty enmities, and driven by fevered dreams of political leverage.
But until now, astronomers have lacked the techniques needed to gauge the trajectories of stars with enough precision to predict such events.
Early workers, including Shimbel and Rapaport [20] and Beurle [21], appreciated the need to use a statistical formulation of such dynamics, but lacked the techniques to go beyond mean-field theory.
