Instruction Quotes - Page 31

• Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

  Jon Voight

  Thinking, People, Adrift

  "Jon Voight: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 10, 2013.

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• A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

  Alton Brown

  Home, Flying, Too Much

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• It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Purpose, Agonizing

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.263, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.

  Paul Hawken

  Future, Air, Broken

  "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times". Book by Paul Loeb, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

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• Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

  Immanuel Kant

  Order, Practice, Progress

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, America

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies

  John Gresham Machen

  Study, Enjoy, Wells

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• I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Innocent, Should, Situation

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• What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?
  George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Ambition, Buttons

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• Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

  Pat Riley

  Player, Weakness, Crave

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• Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

  Alan Turing

  Real, Needs, Machines

  B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press

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• It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

  Franz Liszt

  Ambition, Glowing, Wish

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• Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Prayer, Fasting, Whispering

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• Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Effort, Understanding, Covenant

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• The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Temptation, Listening

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• Every morning, even in the bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. Out from her Caughnawaga cabin at dawn and straight-way to chapel to adore the Blessed Sacrament, hear every Mass; back again during the day to hear instruction, and at night for a last prayer or Benediction.

  Kateri Tekakwitha

  Morning, Prayer, Blessed

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• Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

  Georg Cantor

  Running, Interesting, Might

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• Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Fathers Day, Book, Fatherhood

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• If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

  Xunzi

  Bravery, Fierce, Guidance

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press

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• If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Creativity, Thinking, Light

  Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

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• It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.

  Abby Johnson

  Confused, Choices, Pro Life

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• The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside.

  Moses Thatcher

  Fear, Failure, Eye

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• Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students

  Richard Allington

  Teacher, Differences, Way

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• A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

  Eric Ambler

  Promise, Spy, Half

  Eric Ambler (2009). “The mask of Dimitrios”, Penguin Classics

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• I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Obtaining, Superiors

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