“The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. ”
“The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.”
“But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.”
“Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.”
“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”
“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”