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“A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, not captivated by notions of victory or defeat, will liberate you. Mind fixes your senses and keeps you centered. Mind is the key to wondrous power and supreme clarity.”

Ifs Needs Mind Desire Consciousness Principles Progress Keys Victory Pure Universal Harmony Notion Defeat Track Technique Selfish Senses Supreme Clarity Wondrous Captivated Selfish Desire

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.”

Ifs Dream Activity Structure Technique Psychological Waking Employed Procedures Waking Life

Book:The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

“Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.”

May Matter Fall Found Leadership Moral Cases Greater Subjects Type Mathematics Fortune Math Technique Theology Naked Instance Mathematical Comparison Fall Back Anecdotes Latitude

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.”

Mean Ideas Causes Movement Rain Cancer Technique Classic Smoking Global Warming Rejects Pollution Linked Mike Acid Acid Rain

Author:Michael E. Mann

“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.”

“Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.”

“It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.”

Firsts Inspiration Mistake Creativity Century Technique Rationality Great Mistakes Inspiration And Creativity

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.”

Sex Audience Failing Conversation Female Performances Males Attraction Technique Innocent Touching Simplest Continuum

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.”

Compassion Technique Heal Friendliness

Book:Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine

Source: Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine

“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Believe Doors Poet Depression Perfection Performances Madness Inspired Technique Sane Composition Muse Madmen Bipolar

Author:Socrates

“Love is an essential ingredient in all miracles as it is only love that heals. Techniques don’t heal. Where there is an open heart there is the energy to bring through miraculous and magical energy. Love is the great transformer.”

Heart Energy Love Is Essentials Miracle Technique Heal Ingredients Miraculous Only Love Open Heart Energy Love

Author:Sandra Ingerman

“Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.”

Real Meditation Letting Go Technique

Book:True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness

Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness

“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”

World Art Soul Problem Losing Technique Dissolving

Author:Rachel Kushner

“The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11.”

World Order Heaven Born Devil Hip Hop Rap Technique New World September September 11 New World Order World Order

Author:Immortal Technique

“Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.”

Art Play Artist Stuff Spring Originals Technique Playing Games Original Art

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.”

Trying Different Kids Levels Technique Abstract Mature Expertise Different Levels Inexperience

Author:David Cronenberg

“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.”

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.”

Kind Guy Lines Brain Groups Rocks Drug Singing Add Clinton Technique Atmosphere Cosmic Costumes Observers Parliament Acid Hippie Funk Maggots Laying Down

Author:Eddie Griffin

“When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.”

Years Stories Courses Class Building Red Series Careful Technique Nine Practicals Meaningless Short Story Instruction Assignments Nine Years Snowman Herring Red Herrings

Author:Sloane Crosley

“When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.”

Writing May Stories Seems Form Difficult Training Technique Mediums Prose Insightful Short Story Prose Writing

Author:Truman Capote

“Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.”

Technique Ballet Timing

Author:Kevin McKenzie

“The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.”

Mean Certain Type Noble Technique Partners Excitement Ballet Elegance Entitlement Formidable

Author:Kevin McKenzie

“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Wells Important Done Play Bits Sound Originals Instruments Trade Guitar Technique Obsessed Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Being Original Jack Of All Trades

Author:John Bonham

“The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.”

Firsts Important Book Eye Film Cutting Cameras Technique Touched Filmmaking

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't”

Real Games Fun Knowing Technique Cheating Not Knowing Viewers

Author:Derren Brown

“If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Long Able Language What You Want Technique Command Craftsman

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.”

Influence Modern Effects Objects Harmony Jazz Surprise Musical Technique Noise Traditional Secure Nouns

Author:Bix Beiderbecke

“The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.”

Special Photographer Technique Tricks Rely Immortal Straightforward

Author:Philippe Halsman

“I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.”

Knows Mean Done Half Hell Goes On Scene Boring Technique Crafts Guts Performers

Author:Elaine Stritch

“No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.”

Source: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State

“The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.”

People Body Age Alive Technique Decline Resigned Irreversible

Author:Robertson Davies

“I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.”

Trying Proud Fit Technique Immortal Be Proud

Author:Immortal Technique

“The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.”

Life Is Purpose Dies Causes Technique Immortal Purpose Of Life Worthless

Author:Immortal Technique

“I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.”

People Ifs Hate I Hate Slavery Technique

Author:Immortal Technique

“I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.”

Values Support Shining Killing Technique Bin Laden Interrogation Shining Through Shining Down Interrogation Techniques

Author:Tim Pawlenty

“Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.”

Important Creativity Worry Creative Exercise Skills Technique Developing Be Creative Demonstrating

Author:Twyla Tharp

“There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.”

Trying Persons Player Mines Balls Technique Kicks Copies Routine Personal Things

Author:Neymar

“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science for destruction. Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?”

Art America Life Is Sex Love Is Destruction Extraordinary Profit Currents Productions Technique Selling Characteristics Buying Buying And Selling

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.”

World States Seems Today Revolution Development Evolution Concerned Musical Technique Permanent Appropriate Relative Discovering Investigation

Book:Orientations: Collected Writings

Source: Orientations: Collected Writings

“The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.”

Ifs Way Art Seems Four Example Hair Machines Technique Saved Useless Not Sure Department Uncles Greetings Splitting

Author:Umberto Eco

“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life”

“Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”

Mean Technique Statements Arriving

Book:Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990

Source: Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990

“Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge dollars from individuals in those industries. Certain types of politicians are drawn to this marketing technique because they think the 'bashing' also can be held up as proof that they are not being corrupted. This scheme is called 'putting the squeeze on.' Does that phrase remind you of anything?”

Thinking Knows Doe Real Political Certain Individual Huge Type Industry Politician Raises Dollars Marketing Careful Proof Technique Phrases Schemes Calculations Real Power Bash

Author:Donald Luskin

“If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the board. You're into the future. Empathy requires staying with the energy that's here right now. Not using any technique. Just being present. When I have really connected to this energy, it's like I wasn't there. I call this "watching the magic show". In this presence, a very precious energy works through us that can heal anything, and this relieves me from my "fix-it" tendencies.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Shows Next Energy Magic Right Now Empathy Connected Technique Heal Tendencies Boards Staying Just Being Feel Better Magic Show

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)”

Art Style Painting Photograph Technique Violent Dictionary

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?”

Artist Painting Oil Technique Backwards Oil Painting

Author:Edvard Munch

“You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need”

Needs Book Use Purpose Order Reading Mets Technique Assured

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.”

Situation Revolution Various Technique Sugar Introduction Consuming Industrial Revolution Purifying

Author:Marvin Harris

“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.”

Leadership Ethics Management Mere Technique Divorced

Book:Leadership

Source: Leadership

“The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

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