"When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow"
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"The more technique there is, the less there is"
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"Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones."
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"Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment."
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"I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up."
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"Technique is the test of sincerity."
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"Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique."
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"The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist."
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"Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything."
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"My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front."
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"The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote"
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"If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique."
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"The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition."
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"It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri."
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"The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion."
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"I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction."
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"Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept."
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"I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files."
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"All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message."
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"The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains."
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