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• Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

  Andrew Weil

  Determination, Meditation, Relaxation

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• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  Florence Welch

  Beautiful, Dog, Artist

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• But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Marketing, Want

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Thinking, Nonfiction

  "Ants and Answers: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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• One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Use, Language, Mislead

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• My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Doctors, Trying

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• Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

  John Dewey

  Lying, Science, Law

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.15, 谷月社

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• The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.

  Steven Brust

  Real, Moving, Artist

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• I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Lines, Firsts, Classic

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• I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the results of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Pain, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.286, Penguin

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• Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Teaching

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons

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• In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

  Louis Althusser

  Philosophy, War, Battle

  Louis Althusser, Gregory Elliott (1990). “Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays”, Verso Books

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• You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

  John Berryman

  Writing, Trying, Language

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• I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Light, Feet

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• The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Truth, Yield, Media Control

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• But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Persistence, Yield, Mind

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Reflection, Soul

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

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• He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

  Ann Brashares

  Loving Someone, World, His Love

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.132, Penguin

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• The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Fall

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• Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Men, Mirrors, Records

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• Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

  Raymond Chandler

  Passion, Writing, Enough

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• Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

  Julia Child

  Looks, Recipes

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• I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Art, Way, Remember

  Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.18, Rutgers University Press

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• Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

  Jacques Ellul

  Taken, Civilization, Birth

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• What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I developed after I became a visored. It can't be broken by a soul reaper's kido." "Then who is it? Another visored?" "I don't know. The strange thing is that they didn't break through the force-field. They Slipped through. Not even a visored should be able to do that." "Then, who or what is it?" "...It's coming." "It's a Human?" "Uh...Um...E-excuse me...where's the Bathroom?

  Tite Kubo

  Force Fields, Break Through, Broken

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