"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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"The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement."
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"The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique."
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"Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes."
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"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
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"It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek."
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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."
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"Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world."
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"Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me."
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"Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment."
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"What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion."
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"Today anything can be done - we have the techniques"
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"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"
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"The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion."
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"It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally."
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"I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong."
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