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Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.

Roger Ebert

Believe, Heart, Names

Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.284, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.

Sigmund Freud

Reality, Giving, Community

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Errors, Encounters

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.115, John Wiley & Sons

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By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that
nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if
nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting
either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point.

John Taylor Gatto

Children, School, Errors

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I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

Richard Thompson

Player, Guitar, People

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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Ideas, Two, Example

J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.75, Springer Science & Business Media

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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

Sam Abell

Photography, Light, Important

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As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

Billy Sheehan

Inspiration, Bass, Used

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Never...stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.

Judith Rodin

Running, Mean, Thinking

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If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

Miyamoto Musashi

Thinking, Encounters, Way

Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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Judo is a study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself

Kano Jigoro

Wish, May, Study

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Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.

Mas Oyama

Spiritual, Men, Skills

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Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.

Mas Oyama

Training, Body, Way

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Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

Mas Oyama

Climbing, Achievement, One Day

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As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi.

Mitsugi Saotome

Lying, Keys, Creative

Mitsugi Saotome (1989). “The Principles of Aikido”, Shambhala Publications

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Yoga and Vipassana are the two most time tested ancient techniques for keeping the body, mind and spirit in harmony and in sync. There is no contradiction between yoga and vipassana. They are complementary to each other.

Amit Ray

Yoga, Two, Mind

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Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Spiritual, Art, Real

Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.9, Penguin

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Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.

Jim Clemmer

Use, Recognition, Management

Jim Clemmer, Barry Sheehy (1992). “Firing on All Cylinders”, p.229, Jim Clemmer

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A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

Ron Willingham

Ethics, Strategy, Sales Success

Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.9, Crown Business

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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

Aldous Huxley

Years, People, Research

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Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Josef Albers

Art, Philosophy, People

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Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

Mind, Reader, Sentences

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Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.

William Redington Hewlett

Skills, People, Risk

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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach inside and pull out something to keep you going - no, to go faster - when you have nothing left to give. There's a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.

Barry S. Strauss

Winning, Race, Giving

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Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

Brad Alan Lewis

Running, Taken, Responsibility

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