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• Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Mind, Different

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

  James Dickey

  Writing, Leopards, Use

  James Dickey (1984). “Sorties”, p.168, LSU Press

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• There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some technique or procedure, and requires little if any, original thought... No exercise, then, can always be done with reasonbable dispatch and with a miniumum of creative thinking. In contrast to an exercise, a problem, if it is a good one for its level, should require though on the part of the student.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Teaching, Math, Exercise

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• I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.

  Anne Geddes

  Photography, Heart, Emotional

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• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Photographer

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• Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Struggle, Ideas, Imagination

  José Raúl Capablanca (1947). “Hundred Best Games of Chess”

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• Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.

  Max Euwe

  Simple, Games, Imagination

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• Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

  Mikhail Tal

  Trying, Chess, Impossible

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• You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Important, Photographer

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• The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Simple, Operations

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• And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Real, Thinking

  "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007..

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• All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, World, Inability

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• English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Powerful, Believe

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• The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Zoos, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

  Maury Massler

  Teacher, Motivation, Teaching

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• In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

  Bob Blumer

  Art, Passion, Wine

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• We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.

  S. Dilworth Young

  Heart, Long, Spirit

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• I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would immediately facilitate mastering the ability to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor do I believe that the Lord will ever allow someone to conceive a pattern that would invariably and immediately open the channels of spiritual communication. We grow when we labor to recognize the guidance of the Holy Ghost as we struggle to communicate our needs to our Father in Heaven in moments of dire need or overflowing gratitude.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Father

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• I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the voice of the Spirit. Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ. Were you to receive inspired guidance just for the asking, you would become weak and ever more dependent on them. They know that essential personal growth will come as you struggle to learn how to be led by the Spirit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Father, Struggle

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• Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

  Assar Lindbeck

  Cities, Next, Economics

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• It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Thinking, Mind, Doctrine

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• The Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes it makes vast new amounts. Sometimes it makes lesser amounts. The money takes a variety of forms and enters the system in various ways. And the Fed does this through techniques such as open-market operations, changing reserve ratios, and manipulating interest rates, operations that all result in money creation.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Power, Unique

  "End the Fed". Book by Ron Paul (pp. 2-3), September 16, 2009.

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• Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Success, Mother, Home

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• It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Measurement, Enough

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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Weed, Moving, Taken

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