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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. -- Igor Stravinsky
Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch. -- Evelyn Glennie
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium. -- Camille Paglia
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. -- Brian Ferneyhough
It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you! -- Catherine Crier
There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal. -- Tim Gunn
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one. -- K. Eric Drexler
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation. -- Walter Murch
I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there. -- Leo Kottke
When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively. -- America Ferrera
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out. -- Garry Shandling
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. -- Lindsey Buckingham
I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! -- Ken Hensley
The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred. -- Mark Nepo
Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook. -- Alex Tabarrok
Intention appears to be something akin to a tuning fork, causing the tuning forks of other things in the universe to resonate at the same frequency -- Lynne McTaggart
I got so much advice; I just started tuning it out. If one more person told me what I had to do when the baby comes, I was going to shoot 'em. -- Kate Hudson
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire. -- Shakti Gawain
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word. -- George F. R. Ellis
Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning. -- Kaki King
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. -- Pete Seeger
Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together. -- Robert Stack
What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. -- Lee Ritenour
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. -- Mimi Rogers
The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters. -- Matthew Ashford
We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don't try to do too much predicting. -- David Sze
It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. -- Eric Clapton
My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises. -- Thalia
The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting. -- Mark McKinnon
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. -- Chad Channing
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data. -- Jan Koum
I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do. -- Anne-Marie Duff
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The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. -- Edward Robert Harrison
Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience. -- Bob Lefsetz
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in -- Orison Swett Marden
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If you are tuning in just for the show, you're going to be sorely disappointed. -- Adam Carolla
Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch. -- S. D Gordon
Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning. -- Rick Wagoner
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory. -- Mariella Frostrup
I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it. -- Steve Martin
His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. -- William Gibson
I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off. -- Ellen Chenoweth
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time. -- Michio Kushi
Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places. -- Sam Amidon
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. -- Herbert Wilf
Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet. -- William J. Clinton
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together. -- Terence McKenna
Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal. -- Deepak Chopra
Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do. -- Alan Finger
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance. -- Ian Mcewan
I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks. -- John Fogerty
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Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it. -- Akiva Goldsman
It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit. -- Benjamin Zander
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Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up. -- Shirley Corder
In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy? -- Esther Duflo
Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing all its navigational equipment into the furnace. -- Martha Beck
Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one. -- Cate Blanchett
In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities. -- Willa Cather
That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it. -- Pauline Oliveros
At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area. -- Kobe Bryant
The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning... -- R. Murray Schafer
Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures. -- Frank Gohlke
I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream â?? and by tuning into one anotherâ??s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers. -- Oprah Winfrey
There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place. -- Chris Squire
When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say. -- Sophie Okonedo
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning. -- Kim Smith
You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done... -- Richard Branson
Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes. -- John le Carre
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. -- John le Carre
By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence? -- David Bronstein

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