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• We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Real, Long

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• To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Practice, Intuition, Repeats

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

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• Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.

  Russell Brand

  Self, Ideas, People

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• The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Keys, Issues, Political

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• I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Years

  "How I Wrote the Tarzan Books" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1929.

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• Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.

  Holly Black

  Glasses, Water, Creepy

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Men, Secret

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• I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

  Jennifer Estep

  People, Survival, Murder

  "Widow's Web". Book by Jennifer Estep, August 21, 2012.

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• Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

  Arundhati Roy

  Morning, Broken, Different

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.13, Penguin Books India

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• What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Moving, Mean

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• Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said, and smiled at him. "Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice." "And you are willing to be my tutor?" "I should be very insulted if you chose another," Cecily said, and leaned up to kiss him again.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Practice, Skills

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• If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

  William James

  Motivational, Positive, Exercise

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• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  George Sava

  Dance, Men, Expression

  "This thing called ballet".

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• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Pain, Light

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• Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Ballet, Easy

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Character, Degrees

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

  Lester Young

  Music, Play, Trying

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• All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Feelings, Matter

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• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Killers

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• It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

  Alla Osipenko

  Dance, Art, Moving

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• It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Simplicity, Legs

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• Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Dance, Teacher, Heart

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• Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!

  Jiri Kylian

  Dance, Teacher, Ballet Class

  "In conversation: Jiri Kylian on the choreographer's art". Interview to Dance Magazine, November 1, 1994.

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