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• It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Successful, Science, Discipline

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• No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

  Brian Tracy

  Priorities, Matter, Masters

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, Skills, Looks

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• I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.

  Joseph Campbell

  School, Thinking, Broken

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• Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

  Jerry Rice

  Player, Guy, Green

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Jerry Rice". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

  Andre Kertesz

  Light, Blood, Important

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• The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

  Erich Fromm

  Science, Successful, Men

  1955 The Sane Society.

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• Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.

  Dale Carnegie

  Encouragement, Children, Husband

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• The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

  Pablo Picasso

  Years, Style, Vision

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• Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

  Steven Pinker

  Engineering, Example, Savoring

  Steven Pinker (2014). “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century”, p.17, Penguin

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• We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.

  Robert Mueller

  Order, Judging, Wire

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• We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Important, Fancy, Information

  "Information Management: A Proposal". www.w3.org. March 1989.

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• Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Expression

  Interview with William Wright, 1950.

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• You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

  Jacques Pepin

  Years, Choices, Needs

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• This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.

  Kristin Linklater

  Expression, Two, Voice

  Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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• Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Mean, Mind

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• The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.

  Julie Mehretu

  Space, Political, Understanding

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• Blessing is not a technique we perform but a presence we embody. It is not an act we do to someone or something, but a relationship we form with them that enables us all to be embraced in the presence of an unobstructed world.

  David Spangler

  Blessing, World, Form

  David Spangler (2002). “Blessing”, p.79, Penguin

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• Invest in learning and discovering new filmmaking techniques is the next keystone to success. Film is changing rapidly right now. The last big change was the introduction of sound. This time around it is movies on th internet and mobile telephones.

  Elliot Grove

  Sound, Lasts, Next

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• If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Numbers, Luck, Self Defense

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• Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Needs, Ends

  Masaaki Hatsumi, Ben Jones (2004). “THE WAY OF THE NINJA: Secret Techniques”, p.178, Kodansha International

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• When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Europe, Style

  The Wretched of the Earth conclusion (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)

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• Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Yoga, Inner Peace, Helping

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• Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

  Alain Ducasse

  Attitude, Important, Chef

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