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«You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
(Economist, Founder)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
assure, assured, gotten, or else, techniques
«Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.»
«The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
adores, Big Picture, Grand Canyon, intricate, photographic, precise, printing, Real Magic, refined, skills, techniques, The Big Picture, trivia, wide-angle
«Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
immediate, inclination, promising, stimulate, techniques, The Natural, threatened
«The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bathing, bathing suit, bony, contribution, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, motion picture, Motion pictures, mouthful, mouthfuls, noticing, occupied, popcorn, shocked, suit of clothes, techniques, The Motion Picture, wore
«The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cheerfully, devote, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, starving, techniques, the Techniques
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