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• A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, not captivated by notions of victory or defeat, will liberate you. Mind fixes your senses and keeps you centered. Mind is the key to wondrous power and supreme clarity.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Selfish, Keys, Track

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Waking, Psychological

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Leadership, Fall, Math

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• Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

  Michael E. Mann

  Cancer, Rain, Mean

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Cancer, Fighting, Animal

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• Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Racism, Important, Tools

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• It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Mistake, Inspiration, Creativity

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• Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sex, Touching, Males

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• Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.

  Lewis Mehl-Madrona

  Compassion, Heal, Friendliness

  Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Larry Dossey (2003). “Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine”, p.219, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Love is an essential ingredient in all miracles as it is only love that heals.  Techniques don’t heal.  Where there is an open heart there is the energy to bring through miraculous and magical energy.  Love is the great transformer.

  Sandra Ingerman

  Heart, Love Is, Miracle

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• Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

  Rachel Kushner

  Art, Soul, World

  "The Flamethrowers". Book by Rachel Kushner, April 2, 2013.

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• Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Spring, Playing Games

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

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• Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.

  Viola Spolin

  Memories, Reality, Discovery

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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• Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

  Eddie Griffin

  Hippie, Rocks, Guy

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• When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Insightful, Training

  " Truman Capote's previously unknown boyhood tales published" by Philip Oltermann, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2014.

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• Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

  Kevin McKenzie

  Ballet, Timing

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• The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

  Kevin McKenzie

  Mean, Ballet, Noble

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• I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.

  John Bonham

  Guitar, Play, Important

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• The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Book, Eye, Cutting

  Interview with Charles Reynolds, Popular Photography, 1960.

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• I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

  Derren Brown

  Cheating, Fun, Real

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• If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Long, Want

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• Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Musical, Nouns, Noise

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• The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

  Philippe Halsman

  Special, Photographer, Tricks

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• I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mean, Done, Goes On

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• No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Believe, Government

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State”, p.10, Penguin UK

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