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• So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Listening, Great Gatsby Love

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.85, Atlântico Press

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• Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

  James Surowiecki

  Differences, Making A Difference, Tasks

  "The Stimulus Strategy". www.newyorker.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Journey, Guitar, Rolling

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• By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Beautiful, Ocean, Order

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• By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Trying, Flow, Consciousness

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• There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

  Tim Gunn

  Doors, Cooking, Nests

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• Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust.  Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black.  The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful.  The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.'  The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Song, Beach

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• Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Long, Conservative, Argument

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• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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• Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing all its navigational equipment into the furnace.

  Martha Beck

  Ships, Equipment, Furnaces

  Martha Beck (2008). “The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life”, p.9, Harmony

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• What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Done, Enjoy

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• The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

  Dennis Prager

  Numbers, Design, Enough Time

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• I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

  Joni Mitchell

  Guitar, Different

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• The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away from that tuning right away (to what is now called the Baritone Melody Tuning), because I wanted more string overlap between the two sides.The instrument I currently play has an active pickup system, Fret Rails, a fully adjustible bridge, adjustible truss, Flaps adjustible nut. Even with all of these advances, I'm always struck when I play the older instrument how good they were even then. Emmett's always been great at implementing his ideas.

  Greg Howard

  Bridges, Play, Two Sides

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• Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.

  Frank Gohlke

  Enough, Aspect, Found

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• When Marvel put together Ultimate Spider-Man and someone came up with the idea of having Principal Coulson, they said, "Do you want to do the voice?" I thought, "I have to do the voice!" Because I have a daughter and we watch some cartoons, I couldn't bear the idea of tuning in and hearing somebody else's voice.

  Clark Gregg

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Design, Scientist

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

  Redman

  Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

  Kim Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Creative

  Interview with V.R. Leavitt, www.goodreads.com. February 09, 2015.

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• The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Hands, Secret, Trying

  R. Murray Schafer (1993). “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Artist, Goal, Forks

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• I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

  J Mascis

  Stuff, Boundaries, Enjoy

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• I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.

  Tom Kenyon

  Information, Reeds, Shamanism

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• It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

  Benjamin Zander

  Symphony, Tiny, Volume

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Chess, Pawns

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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