Quotes and Sayings About Instruction
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A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.
-- Abdul Sattar Edhi -
I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
-- Adolf Eichmann -
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
-- Alafair Burke -
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
-- Alexander Pope -
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
-- Anne Lamott -
Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
-- Barbara Seranella -
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
-- Bryan Adams -
Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
-- Carter Burwell -
Mission control, We have a UFO pacing our position, request instructions!
-- Catherine Coleman -
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
-- Catherine McAuley -
Show your instructions in actions as much as you can.
-- Catherine McAuley -
Men should come with instruction booklets.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
-- Denise Levertov -
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
-- Donald A. Norman -
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
-- Edward Gibbon -
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
-- Emile Zola -
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
-- Epictetus -
A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
-- Erwin McManus -
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
-- Frances Wright -
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
-- Franz Liszt -
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
-- Freeman Tilden -
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
-- George C. Marshall -
Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
-- Isocrates -
Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.
-- Iyanla Vanzant
