Instruction Quotes - Page 6

...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society

John Stuart Mill

Children, Mind, Training

John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.233, Hackett Publishing

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What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

Richard Dawkins

Lying, Heart, Technology

Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.' He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent.

John Flanagan

Sorry, Thinking, Apologizing

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That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of the Press in ending a correspondence, it be an instruction to the officers to give notice "That no further contributions to the mysteries of Polarity will be received, considered or printed by the Society." His challenge was not accepted.

Henry Edward Armstrong

Science, Practice, Games

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A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Spiritual, Purpose, Masters

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As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Leonard Cohen

Voice, Done, Dignity

How I Got My Song Address at the Prince Asturias Awards, delivered 21 October 2011

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Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly

Nalini Singh

Butterfly, Littles, Galen

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What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

J. I. Packer

Children, Attitude, Teaching

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Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

Penelope Lively

Book, Reading, Support Systems

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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

Anne Lamott

Failing, When All Else Fails

Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Penguin

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Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Lying, Games, Play

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I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Ingrid Betancourt

Laughter, Humanity, Survival

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He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored

Karen Marie Moning

Ignored, Made, Passengers

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The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

Jim Harrison

Nurse, World, Woods

Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press

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It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

Douglas Adams

Civilization, Needs, Use

Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.

Kristin Cashore

Queens, Giving, Honor

Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.315, Penguin

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King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain.

Kristin Cashore

Kings, Men, Secret

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When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.

Barry Blitt

Unique, Expression, Cartoon

"Cartoonist Takes On the Sketchiest President Yet". Interview With Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2017.

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It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

Albert Einstein

Education, Believe, Miracle

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Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Thomas Huxley

Education, Teaching, Law

Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

John Updike

Happiness, Children, Educational

John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness

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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

Wisdom, Past, Errors

Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.208

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In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Simon Schama

Illumination, History, Narrators

Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

Robert M. Pirsig

Education, Teacher, School

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