Instruction Quotes - Page 17

• This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

  Winnie Holzman

  Tests, This Life, Has Beens

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• Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that may not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.

  George Foreman

  People, Giving, Needs

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.99, Thomas Nelson

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• The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Book, People

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• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

  William O. Douglas

  Teacher, Jobs, Fear

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• If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically.

  J. Boone

  Dog, Integrity, Book

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• If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, Artist, Technique

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• Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Worry, Possibility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 09, 2013

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• A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

  George Stigler

  Native Language, People, Citizens

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• Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.

  Hermann Weyl

  Beauty, Art, Reality

  Hermann Weyl (1950). “Space, Time, Matter”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  Lynne Cheney

  Children, Ideas, Discovery

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• Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Doe, Use, Enabling

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.126, Princeton University Press

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• The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

  Terry Riley

  Book, Mind, Incredibles

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• The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

  Freeman Tilden

  Interpretation, Chiefs, Aim

  Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• This divine privilege of raising our children is a much greater responsibility than we can do alone, without the Lord's help. He knows exactly what our children need to know, what they need to do, and what they need to be to come back into His presence. He gives mothers and fathers specific instruction and guidance through the scriptures, His prophets, and the Holy Ghost.

  Cheryl A. Esplin

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.

  Irina Tweedie

  Teacher, Yoga, Teaching

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• Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

  Mark Dever

  Imitation

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• Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Book, Fall

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons".

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• Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Dark, Years

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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• Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, People, Advice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.39, Ravenio Books

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• Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friends, Teacher, Pleasure

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Human Nature, Humans, Human Beings

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• I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  Edmund Barton

  Religious, School, Years

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• We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, Males, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.257, Algora Publishing

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• There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Findings

  Thomas Carlyle (1882). “The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam Lecture 2: Heroes & Hero Worship”

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