I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
“The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats. — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is… — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind;… — Yamaoka Tesshu Copy Share Image
This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for… — Bruno Barbey Copy Share Image
The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full… — Rudolph Ballentine Copy Share Image
Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be… — Georges Doriot Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream... — Mooji Copy Share Image
I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy... — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well. — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details… — Maria Luisa Bombal Copy Share Image
Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I'm not a big guy that watches technique from my opponents. I try to do what I do best and hope that… — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I… — Aaron Sanchez Copy Share Image
Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
