Instruction Quotes - Page 8

• The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

  Richard A. Clarke

  Media, Achievement, Causes

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• Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!
  The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

  Aleister Crowley

  Yoga, Thinking, Two

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Wise, People, Word Of God

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• Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts. At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures, that is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Voice, Long, Noble

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• We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Illumination

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2015). “Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes”, p.135, Discovery House

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• Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Simple, Car, Understanding

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• The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

  J. I. Packer

  Two, Church, Needs

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.

  Golda Meir

  Night, Soldier, President

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• Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Return

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Miserables”, p.1493, Xist Publishing

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• Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.

  Russell Sherman

  Angel, Bridges, Ideas

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• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Reality, Perfect

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• Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Literacy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.165, Shambhala Publications

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• Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Night, Care

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• We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.

  Basil Moreau

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

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• Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Giving, Soldier

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

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• The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

  William E. Gladstone

  Errors, Order, History

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• Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving, Mind, Subconscious

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• Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Wine, Oxygen

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• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  Aristotle

  Opposites, Decision, Employment

  Aristotle, John Henry Freese (1926). “Aristotle: the art of rhetoric”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

  Tony Wagner

  Teacher, Doe, Lessons

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• Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

  Asher Brown Durand

  Safe, May, Let Me

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• I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

  William James

  Philosophy, Order, Medicine

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• A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.

  John Dewey

  Art, Lying, Spring

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Delighted

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.264

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