"No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings."
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"I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone."
"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities."
"Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace"
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
"In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture."
"One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument."
"Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that."
"Sometimes you arrive late in the process of filming, which makes it a little scary because they've already got this well-established technique going on, and all of the relationships are comfy and cozy. You have to figure out how to fit in, which can always be a scary first day."
"Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision."
"The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure."
"I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs."
"The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical."
"In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit."
"Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic."
"To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position."
"Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy."
"[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions."
"Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them."
"In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines."