Instruction Quotes - Page 26

• When all else fails, read the instructions.

  Agnes Allen

  Failing, Murphys Law, When All Else Fails

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• Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Marketing, Fields, Study

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.154, Princeton University Press

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• I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Book, Men

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Inspiration, Mean

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Real, School

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• Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.

  Ed Seykota

  Eye, Dollar Bills, Dollars

  "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.

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• She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heart, Over It, Understood

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teaching, Doe, Prophet

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Attention, World, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Country, Men

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• Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Understanding, Fatherhood, Action

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• I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

  Christine Gregoire

  Giving Up, Scratches, Able

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• When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Telepathy, Horsemen

  "You Must Know: Benedict Cumberbatch". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  George C. Marshall

  Following Instructions, Serious, Given

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• The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.' (138)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Struggle, Bread Of Life, Sour Milk

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

  Jack Kornfield

  Tests, Remember, Life Is

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• Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.

  Jenny Downham

  Doors, Drunk, Laughing

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable. "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Doors, House

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.461, Simon and Schuster

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• Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

  Bill Watterson

  Baby, Dad, Light

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• Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Important, Trying

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• Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

  Ellen G. White

  Law, Web Of Life, Selfishness

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• Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Responsibility, Self, Great Love

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• Islam is the religion of peace. And Islam, genuine, real Muslims are as opposed to Al-Qaeda and ISIS as we are. That is what has been dictated to our law enforcement agents by their superiors. If those were your instructions, and you have a terror attack and you're out there reporting to the media, trying to answer questions, you'd sound like a babbling buffoon, too, because you'd have to come up with ways to violate the very common sense you know is true.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Terror Attacks, Isis

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Being a able to work with Reid [Corneilus] one on one those two seasons were great he taught me the ins and outs of pitching and what I needed to do to be successfull. My first Two years of pro ball I was under the instruction of John Duffy who was excellent as well. With out those two helping me through out the way I dont think I would have been able to excel as much as i did.

  Graham Taylor

  Thinking, Years, Two

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