Instruction Quotes - Page 28

• Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Sleep, Dragons

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• Literature is not an instruction manual.

  Charles Baxter

  Literature, Manuals

  Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”

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• The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Shylock, Go Hard

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]

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• Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

  John Cleese

  Technology, Impress, Engineers

  "Die Another Day". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.bbc.co.uk. November 20, 2002.

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• We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

  Josephine Baker

  Education, Brotherhood, Natural

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• His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Mind, Different

  Clive Barker (2010). “Imajica”, p.82, HarperCollins UK

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• Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive." -from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.

  Christopher Paolini

  Kings, Revenge, Grief

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.321, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Luck, Awful

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.9, Random House

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• If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

  Stockwell Day

  Sex, School, Law

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.

  Joe Bageant

  Christian, Stupid, Redneck

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• Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.

  Chuck Israels

  Music, Sound, Jazz

  "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.

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• The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

  Isaac Barrow

  Happiness, Order, Preparation

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• I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

  Sister Souljah

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• You are the driver of your mind, so take charge and keep it busy with your instructions by telling it where you want it to go. Your mind only takes off on its own if you are not telling it what to do.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Mind, Want

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you. All of your problems, all of your conflicts, all of your difficulties in creating a life on your planet of peace and joy are based in your failure to understand this simple instruction, and to follow it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Creating, Joy

  Neale Donald Walsch (2006). “Meditations from Conversations with God”, p.136, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Curriculum

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

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• Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Manipulation, Assumption

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• PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Photography, Art, Work

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

  A. S. Byatt

  Art, Doe, Pleasure

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

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• Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Country

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Truth, Believe

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• If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

  Beth Moore

  Jesus, Giving, Tasks

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• Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

  Jacque Fresco

  Essentials, Connections, Academia

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