All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
It feels like the older you get - or maybe that doesn't even matter - you have to get a forcing incentive… — Pontus Winnberg Copy Share Image
We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong. — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers 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
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique,… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't… — Julia Kent Copy Share Image
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier… — John Newbery Copy Share Image
