It used to hurt me that people thought I didn’t have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Good cricket is not just about technique, it’s about temperament.

Music is a conversation between the artist and the listener. Don’t limit yourself to one genre, explore different styles and techniques.

Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.

If you are hitting the ball well, your form, your technique looks good, and when you are not, everything about your game looks bad. That is how it goes.

Fortunately, I got to play some India ‘A’ games, and some games where the pressure was a little less, so that I can focus on my skill and my technique.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

I love money, and I love movement. I like what it has let me do for my family. I have paid off my mum and dad’s mortgage, I’ve bought them two BMWs, they can have anything they want. I am buying a fleet of cars for myself. I have unemployed my sisters, they don’t need to work, don’t need to worry about a thing.

Machines don’t use machines.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical

I could really make a song of hurt because I’ve been hurt by a lot of men. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don’t answer my calls.

I’m ouI’m out here tryna find someone/ So the ring on my phone, ring on my fingert here tryna find someone/ So the ring on my phone, ring on my finger

Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not deny the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men

Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time

The American Dream is a crock. Stop me if I’m getting too technical.

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it’s necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything – that’s part of how you teach people they can’t do anything, they’re helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.

The first man who said “fire burns” was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands—a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization. (1931)

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds.

Technological instruments are no more than extensions of our own senses and bodies, and our nervous systems

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than by individuals.

Gee, you know, that information really would have been more useful to me

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

In the face of injustice, silence is betrayal.

my desire to always get better, always want more, always be my top critic, and accept the good and the bad is a trait that accounts for my success.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.