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“Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.”

Thinking Humans Wells Soul Creativity Prepared Technique Be Prepared Human Soul

Author:Carl Jung

“You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.”

Want I Can Sometimes Certain Actors Stupid Technique Stupidest

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.”

Firsts Littles Ends Hands Artist Song Bits Sound Cutting Mets Little Bit Shoes Corners Technique Stealing Spots Staring Shy Introducing Clumsy Holding Hands Collages

Author:Jens Lekman

“The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.”

Long Doors Achieve Conflict Ambition Technique Immortality Ties Realms Dogma Shallow Mystical Worldly Gross Duality

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.”

Ifs Done Moments Morning Profound Average Insight Technique Sunset Lunch Afternoon Pilgrim Epiphany Unforgettable Life Altering Unforgettable Moments

Author:David Brooks

“They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.”

Balls Technique Ridiculous Flats Flaws Flawed

Author:Rick Barry

“Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?”

“We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.”

Knows Heart Sometimes Use Alive Cold Technique Liquid Freeze Cold Heart Nitrogen Liquid Nitrogen

Author:Lennart Nilsson

“Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.”

Use Management Technique Saving Time Management

Author:Ed Bliss

“In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.”

People Ifs Kind Doe Helping Body Easy Work Steps Achieve Serious Ambition Technique My Ambition Executing

Author:Panayiotis Zavos

“The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.”

“Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.”

Art Liberty Enlightenment Art Is Technique Decoration Embellishment

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”

Want Needs Mean Feelings Growth Natural Painting Method Technique Statements Arriving

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.”

Masters Dancing Technique

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.”

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

“Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.”

Mind Real Body Earth Heaven Sound Voice Powerful Produce Speech Weapons Breaths Technique Tunes Cosmic Very Powerful Heaven And Earth Powerful Weapons

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.”

Country Security Behavior Israel Technique Other Countries Bureaucracy Airports Transportation Detection Government Bureaucracy Tsa

Author:John Mica

“I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits.”

“You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline”

Moments Running Path Journey Discipline Technique Genuine Unhappy Warrior Thread

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

“Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing”

Form Prayer Knowing Meditation Masters Highest Silent Technique Surrender Naked Abyss Effortless Acts Of Love

Author:Adyashanti

“That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.”

Source: The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success

“Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.”

Mind Body Yoga Technique

Author:LeBron James

“From breathing techniques, muscle toning to overall flexibility and relaxation, my Pilates sessions have become something of a weekly necessity that keeps me fit, happy and energized.”

Fit Technique Breathing Muscles Relaxation Flexibility Session Pilates

Author:Pippa Middleton

“A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.”

Ifs Language Technique

Author:Philip Glass

“Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess.”

Should Important Play Remember Moving Sound Roles Stage Response Complexes Technique Echoes Remember You Remembers You Deliberation

Author:Bruce Lee

“My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.”

Knows My Own Too Much Player Style Guitar Technique Creeps Guitar Player Laughable

Author:David Gilmour

“The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.”

People Two Lying Technique Arguing Infamy

Author:Ezra Pound

“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.”

Mind Disease Worthy Technique Obsessed Desirable

Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.”

Secret Teach Masters Technique About Yourself

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.”

Bigs Animal Deals Cities Car Circumstances Technique Los Angeles Vehicle Refuge Tourists Reservations Wild Animal Unsafe Lodges

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?”

Past Passion Sports Can Do Harder Technique Faster Climbs Climbing Sophisticated Better Off Refined

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.”

Mind Humans Self Body Human Beings Principles Mindfulness Self Improvement Concepts Technique Improvement Mind And Body Basic Principles

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

“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.”

People Thinking Art I Can Form Football Technique Appeals Ballet Primitive Footballer

Author:Robert Helpmann

“Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power. Learn your technique thoroughly, immerse yourself in it, and then just throw it all out the window, and express what you feel... and it will come through that you are a technician.”

Feels Art Stills Economy Window Technique Technicians Honing

Author:William Dobell

“The techniques of Aikido change constantly; every encounter is unique, and the appropriate response should emerge naturally. Today's techniques will be different tomorrow. Do not get caught up with the form and appearance of a challenge. Aikido has no form - it is the study of the spirit”

Should Different Today Form Spirit Challenges Study Tomorrow Unique Response Caught Appearance Technique Encounters Appropriate Caught Up Aikido

Author:Morihei Ueshiba

“Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.”

Important Technique

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel not disturbed. The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make best use out of every situation. Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.”

Feels Helping Use Used Mother Situation Influence Awareness Habit Blessing Pure Advantage Technique Supreme Shock Disturbing Disturbed Mother Nature Absorbing Life Wisdom

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“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.”

Important Play Notes Speed Technique Faster Hitting

Author:Joe Satriani

“If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come.”

Ifs Mean Self States Imagination Effort Awareness Quiet Down And Self Awareness Intention Following Insight Technique Senses Intense Streams Keeping Quiet

Author:Mooji

“Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.”

Feels Should Trying Process Practice Meditation Involved Technique Learning Process

Book:Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa

Source: Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa

“Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.”

Talent Technique

Book:The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

“We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.”

Thinking Spiritual Spirituality Technique Developing Deceiving Strengthening

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright”

Energy Deals Stage Technique Knots Fright Stage Fright

Author:William Hurt

“Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.”

Prayer Blessing Fruit Technique Relationship With God

Book:A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

Source: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

“My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.”

Firsts Art Stories Mother Three Born Natural Four Lessons Tradition Technique Storytelling Kitchen Storyteller Telling Stories Effortless Oral Tradition

Author:Paule Marshall

“The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss the natural counter force or the organic synthesis which is a negative form of quality - The Organic Vacuum - that reunites the polar and the increasing to the favour of the uprising of a new life form.”

Kind Use Form Force Nature Natural Quality Missing Negative Technique Expansion New Life Favour Hostile Explosions Vacuums Uprising Synthesis

Author:Viktor Schauberger

“I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.”

Thinking Years Humans Use Joy Capacity Technique Collectives Tragic Biologist Human Capacity

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .”

Art Self Enough Style Design Technique Impression Revelations Self Revelation

Book:Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963

Source: Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963

“True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.”

Use Spiritual Results Grace Technique Clever Tricks Psychological Contemplation Theological

Book:Contemplative Prayer

Source: Contemplative Prayer

“That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.”

People Hands Standards Angry Technique Privatization Sure Thing

Author:Noam Chomsky