Mechanic Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Spiritual, Attitude

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  Randy Johnson

  Determination, Ideas, Refined

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• Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Fields, Structure, Made

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• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

  Anne Tyler

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

  Roy H. Williams

  Science, Economy, Quantum

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• I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Humble, Son, Quantum

  "Lives less ordinary" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Stripes, Navy

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• By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Live In The Moment, Mind, Patterns

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mean, Science, Math

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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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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• I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

  Barry Zito

  Focused

  "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Tyler Bleszinski, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.

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