"The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us"
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"Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence."
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"Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!"
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"There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control."
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"The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience."
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"To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique."
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"To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive."
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"We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination."
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"Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless."
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"You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore."
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"Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP."
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"Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene."
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"You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun."
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"The best technique is none at all."
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"If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules."
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"I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it]."
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"I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing."
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"There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate."
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"I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques."
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"But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary."
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