Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
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Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"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."
Aldo Rossi
Architect
"What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state."
D. A. Carson
Theologian
"Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings."
Michael Chekhov
Actor, Director
"Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation."
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"I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted."
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"Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?"
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"You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public."
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"You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously."
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"Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from the heart of your soul and what your existence in this Universe is all about!"
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"My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing."
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"One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started."
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"I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error."
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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."
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"Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it."
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"Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it."
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"When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique."
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"In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes."
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"We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company."
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"Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists."
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"Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing."
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"Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility."
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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
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"An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it."
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"Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity."
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