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• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  Rafael Nadal

  Tennis, Helping, Aggressive

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• Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Practice, Perfection

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• Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

  Steven Pinker

  Party, Use, Leviathan

  "War And Violence On The Decline In Modern Times". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal ConanN, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

  Brad Pitt

  Art, Class, Littles

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Artist

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Inspiration, Looks

  "Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons (p. 80), 1966.

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• I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Moving, Thinking

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• I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Meditation Practice, Woven

  "Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Interrogation Techniques, Information

  "GOP Rivals Hit Obama on Foreign Policy Despite Bin Laden Killing, Hit Harder on Economy". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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• People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, People, Superhero

  Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. January 14, 2008.

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• I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Depth, Matter

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 06, 2013

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• I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

  Sargent Shriver

  Educational, Thinking, Goal

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• The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

  Georg Simmel

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Historical

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

  Nina Simone

  Music, People, Choices

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• A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Self, Acting

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• A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fun, Writing, Differences

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• The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

  Bill Toomey

  Easter, Science, Athletic

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• To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

  Linus Torvalds

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Light, Rocks

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• In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Aquariums

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Preparation, Secret

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.159, Shambhala Publications

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• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Technology, Years

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• Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

  Tony Visconti

  Science, Years, Today

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Skating, Dresses

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• I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

  Ethel Waters

  Play, Acting, Roles

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