Instruction Quotes - Page 19

• Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Heart, Blessing

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.61, Modern Library

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• A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Long, Desire, Rewards

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• If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

  George Herbert

  Art, Home, Speak

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• The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

  Michele Lee

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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• I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Teacher, Love Is, Silence

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• the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Sex, Men

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• Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

  Barbara Seranella

  Mechanic, Asks

  Barbara Seranella (2013). “An Unacceptable Death”, p.75, Macmillan

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• The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Grandma, Gps, Phones

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.

  Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

  Real, Perfection, Soul

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• It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

  Creflo A. Dollar

  Jesus, Yield, Christ

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• Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
  A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Reading, Men, Sick

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.6, Tharpa Publications US

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• The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

  Arne Duncan

  Smart, School, College

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• I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, Two

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Simple, Meditation

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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• My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

  John R. Leopold

  Safety, Focus, Priorities

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• When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

  Edna Ferber

  War, Gun, Age

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• In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

  Samuel Richardson

  Stories, Amusement, Littles

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa: Preface”, p.19, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

  David R. Brower

  Trying, Mountain, Population

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• Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Men, Curiosity, Curious

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• Men should come with instruction booklets.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Men, Should

  Cathy Guisewite (2013). “Confessions to My Mother”, p.12, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.

  Harvey Mackay

  Smart, Choices, Add

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• Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Perfect, Mind, Letters

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• Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

  Aristotle

  Education, Children, Thinking

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.333, Collector's Library

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