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• Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

  Bill Gross

  Jobs, Writing, Political

  "Strawberry Fields - Forever?" by William H. "Bill" Gross, www.pimco.com. December 2012.

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• Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

  Eddie Harris

  Play, Feelings, Looking Forward

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Vanity, Personality

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  Eve Arnold

  Moving, Skills, Musician

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.16, A&C Black

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• There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no personality in it, it's not something you want to go back for. But heart without any skill at all? All the heart in the world ain't gonna help you if you can't peel an onion, or if you don't understand how to apply heat properly. A well-done steak is a well-done steak.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Heart, Skills, Personality

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Airplane, Mean, People

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• Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Strong, Believe

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.

  Joell Ortiz

  Artist, Thinking, Rapper

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

  Dan Gable

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Teacher, Powerful

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• There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

  Georges Pompidou

  Technology, Sisterhood, Gambling

  Sunday Telegraph 26 May 1968

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• The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Sight, Matter

  "Tacita Dean: Film". Book by Tacita Dean, Unilever series vol. 12, 2011.

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• The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Marketing

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• Most people may not think about it, but the aftermath of war is very costly. Costly not just in lives, but the treatment. Because of the efficiency of our transportation system, the efficiency of our medical technicians, people are surviving.

  Daniel Inouye

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

  Stephen Fry

  Heartless, Vivisection, Study

  Stephen Fry (2014). “Making History”, p.9, Soho Press

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• Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Religious, Government, Organization

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• The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Artist, Today, Century

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• I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the energy is just phenomenal. Great crews here. All the technicians, all the artists that work in this industry. I've just been very happy with the body that we've been able to do, especially those films we shot here in New York City.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Artist, Thinking

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• a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a Doctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

  John Connolly

  Home, Doctors, Suffering

  John Connolly (2009). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

  Jimmy Page

  Play, Technique, Picks

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

  Layne Redmond

  Female, Drumming, Divinity

  Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

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• The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Technique, Truth Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

  Edward Abbey

  Cost Of Living, Air, Rising

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

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• I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Teacher, Community, Police

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