Mechanic Quotes - Page 7

• Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Laughing, Masters

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.96, Univ of California Press

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• But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, People, Pilots

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Money, Doctors, Lasts

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• Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

  Adam Hamilton

  Love, Marriage, Husband

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• Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

  Tim Wakefield

  Nice, Way, Trouble

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• Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching. When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics. The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built. You do this by taking the thing apart piece by piece. The trap can’t trap you if it has been taken to pieces. The result is freedom.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Taken, Eye, Buddhism

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Business, Generosity

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-z Steps to a Richer Life: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

  Baba Amte

  Men, Oil, Leader

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• My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'

  Claude Shannon

  Names, Ideas, Two

  "Scientific American", Vol. 225, (p. 180), 1971.

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• History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

  Hippolyte Taine

  History, Psychology, Problem

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• Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

  Jon Meacham

  Leader, Dreamer, Dogma

  Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.20, Random House

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• Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Dream, Country

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• From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be possible to write the conclusion if a theory will be established which will determine the value of the fine structure constant and will thus explain the atomistic structure of electricity, which is such an essential quality of all atomic sources of electric fields actually occurring in nature.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Believe, Writing, Views

  "Writings on Physics and Philosophy".

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• The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.

  Paul Dirac

  Law, Too Much, Chemistry

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.391, Cambridge University Press

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• A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

  Jack Spicer

  Poet

  Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press

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• The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

  Washington Allston

  Artist, Doe, World

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

  Svetlana Khorkina

  Grace, Tumbling, Elegance

  "Khorkina lashes judges as cheats", www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2004.

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• According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

  Brian Greene

  Sky, Space, Age

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.308, Vintage

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• In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Car, Luck, Today

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• The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Fields, Problem, Replacements

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.

  Pete Hamill

  Writing, Character, Goal

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• My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Wish, Chemistry, Physics

  Vilfredo Pareto (1963). “The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology”

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• I also think that I had great mechanics.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Thinking

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• In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.

  Konstantin Pobedonostsev

  Spring, Military, Real

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