"Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
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"Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive."
"There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt."
"Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind."
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
"No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting."
"Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me."
"There are many meditation techniques, and it's important to find one that resonates with you."
"I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film."
"The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent."
"I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction."
"There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice."
"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."
"We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them."
"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values."
"The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good."
"This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen."
"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"
"Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique."
"Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning."