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“I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.”

World Way Giving Ends Stories Possibility Reader Internet Technique Alternatives Narrative Permit Gaming Sideways

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.”

Mind Levels Meditation Fields Intellect Technique Borders Transcendental Transcendental Meditation

Author:David Lynch

“I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.”

Humans Has Beens Stories Human Beings Cases Meditation Heard Technique Transformed Transcendental Transcendental Meditation

Author:David Lynch

“Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. If you're a human being, it will work for you. And you will be very glad you found this technique and took advantage of it.”

Ifs Humans Matter Found Human Beings Walks Meditation Color Advantage No Matter What Technique Glad Transcendental Walks Of Life Transcendental Meditation

Author:David Lynch

“All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Meditation Technique Get Better Transcendental Full Potential Transcendental Meditation Life Gets Better

Author:David Lynch

“In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.”

Should Firsts May Made Government America Politics Process Kings Horse Technique Circles Fund Sunrise Selection Drowning Qualifications Persia Unconcerned Electoral Process Darius

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.”

Knows Should Looks Reason Play Character Actors Difficult Instruments Assuming Technique No Reason Violin Effortless Violinist Dexterity

Book:Challenge For The Actor

Source: Challenge For The Actor

“It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.”

People Play Would Be Force Powerful Dangerous Emotional Machines Technique Laboratory Electrical Nucleus Emotional Power

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.”

Moments Law Games Force Chance Secret Music Jazz Appearance Technique Organized Disorder Obscure Conform Orchestra Spurs Obeying Virtuoso Spur Of The Moment

Author:Wanda Landowska

“I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.”

Firsts Persons Technique Rhetoric Orators Bryan

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.”

“I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.”

Believe Has Beens Whole I Believe Process Becoming Marketing Customers Technique Advertising Cynical Conventional Consumerism Becoming More Advertising And Marketing

Author:Anita Roddick

“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.”

War Sometimes Might Military Research Resources Technique Developing Gaps Sophisticated Technological Frustrating Urgent Pointless Mismatch

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.”

God Form Joy Prayer Secret Attention Practice Teacher Particular Conversation Silent Technique Devotion Overwhelming Abandoned Habitual Conversations With God

Author:Brother Lawrence

“I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.”

Ifs Found Acting Tough Technique

Author:Kiki Dee

“The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.”

People World Mean Persons Values Watches Doubt Influence Citizens Behavior Details Technique Objectives Traditional Permanent No Doubt Elites Fulfilling Nwo Traditional Values

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.”

Environment Products Succeed Losing Technique Hungry Superiors Selling

Author:Ben Horowitz

“I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.”

Thinking Sometimes Social Direct Technique Statements Satire Comment

Author:Kristin Hunter

“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”

“During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.”

Made Age Earth Secret Meditation Conditions Lows Ideals Ancient Population Technique Purity Discovering Auras Ancient Egypt Density Atlantis Population Density

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills.”

Way Children Helping Levels Secret Meditation Taught Skills Increase Method Ancient Technique Priests Psychics Ancient Egypt Atlantis Priestesses

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“The vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages would make it impossible for reincarnating members of the Order to go deeply enough into their other memories, without the secret techniques first.”

Firsts Enough Age Order Memories Secret Impossible Members Ancient Technique Toxicity Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques.”

Earth Secret Meditation Impossible Civilization Ancient Technique Dense Auras Egyptian Ancient Egypt Atlantis Egyptian Civilization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.”

Secret Meditation Tradition Ancient Technique Present Day Ancient Egypt Atlantis Oral Tradition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.”

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

“Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.”

People Self Use Spiritual Program Technique Dependent Treatment Proven Self Change

Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of my works. It is similar to the works of a poet, the form of a poem is determined at the same time as its content.”

Form Subjects Particular Poet Determined Technique Working It

Author:Guity Novin

“serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.”

Mean States Consciousness Particular Higher Sitting Experience Mere Technique Vanity Worldly Craving Illumination Serene States Of Consciousness Flashy

Book:The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

Source: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

“I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.”

Thinking Trying Break Tired Technique

Author:Cat Zingano

“Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.”

World Giving Writing Age Lost Christ Dark Known Century Yoga Ancient Technique Disciple Revival Dark Ages Krishna Nineteenth Century Arjuna

Author:Lahiri Mahasaya

“As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so Im very excited when I notice that.”

Play Helping Stories Reading Reader Excited Technique Cant Fairytale

Author:Kate Bernheimer

“G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.”

Ifs Writing Trying Said Important Philosophy Use Seems Teach Students Technique Live By

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.”

Thinking Subjects Intellectual Mathematics Technique Mathematician Indispensable

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.”

Writing Stills Able Beautiful Technique Something Beautiful Enchanting

Author:Peter Turchi

“There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.”

Thinking Men Way Play Young Courses Opportunity Force Band Guitar Technique Young Man Drummer Phenomenal Zeppelins

Author:Jimmy Page

“I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.”

People Believe Mean War Use I Believe Emotional Revolution Glasses Heavy Strikes Technique Shooting Poison Etc Call Me Identification Pacifist Sabotage Moralist Invaders Ambush

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you're highlighting this astounding artichoke, it's got to be an astounding artichoke.”

Ifs Way Important Technique Get Away Ingredients Highlighting Artichokes

Author:Michael Pollan

“My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.”

Running Strong Voice Teacher Discipline Singing Technique

Author:Lea Salonga

“There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique.”

Certain Voice Quality Style Technique Singers Mercury

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Technical achievement without vision is only craft.”

Vision Achievement Technique Crafts

Author:Carole Katchen

“Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr).”

Nations Growing Progress Industry Mass Hatred Increase Army Murder Technique Improvement Engines Instruction Expansion Distrust Expanding Discontent Fiance

Author:African Spir

“The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.”

Mind Body Actors Half Benefits Connections Technique Height Tension Inches Relaxation Vocal Mind Body Centeredness Mind Body Connection Responsiveness

Author:Kevin Kline

“I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.”

Littles Use Girl Grows Levels Talking Growing Up Baby Dad Husband Sick Scary Technique Scare Manipulate So Sick Really Scary

Author:Megan Fox

“Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!”

United Saws Player Fields Training Technique Attributes Manchester Manchester United Scholes

Author:Laurent Blanc

“When I tap, it means I've accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the mat. I never give up.”

Giving Looks Mean Next Steps Lessons Giving Up Technique Accepted Next Time Never Giving Up I Never Give Up

Author:Ryron Gracie

“Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. Youll look and feel way better for it.”

Way Feels Looks Levels Meditation Exercise Stress Technique Breathing Relaxation Deep Breath Deep Breathing Stress Levels

Author:Suzanne Somers

“The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.”

Thinking Needs Use Process Creative Creation Technique Negotiation Exploits

Book:The Art and Science of Negotiation

Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation

“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.”

People Ifs Film Emotional Perfection Miracle Technique Awe Again And Again Great Film Emotional Life

Author:Ali MacGraw

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