quotes 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 -
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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 BurkeSource : "What You May Not Know About the Zimmerman Verdict: The Evolution of a Jury Instruction" by Alafair Burke, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.
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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 SeranellaSource : Barbara Seranella (2013). “An Unacceptable Death”, p.75, Macmillan
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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 AdamsSource : "Bryan Adams on learning to deal with fame". Interview with Shirley Halperin, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2011.
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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 -
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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 GuisewiteSource : Cathy Guisewite (2013). “Confessions to My Mother”, p.12, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Literature is not an instruction manual.
-- Charles BaxterSource : Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”
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You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
-- Denise LevertovSource : Denise Levertov (1989). “A Door in the Hive”, p.40, New Directions Publishing
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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. NormanSource : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 4, p. 87; regarding doors labeled "Push" and "Pull", 2002.
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
-- Edward Gibbon -
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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 McManusSource : Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul”, p.19, Thomas Nelson
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
-- Frances WrightSource : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.25
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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 TildenSource : Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press
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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 -
Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
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If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
-- IsocratesSource : "Ad Dæmonicum", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.
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Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Nothing important comes with instructions.
-- James RichardsonSource : James Richardson (2010). “By the Numbers”, p.33, Copper Canyon Press
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Listening to nature's operating instructions.
-- Janine Benyus -
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I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
-- Jeff Lindsay -
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
-- Jeffrey EugenidesSource : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.22, A&C Black
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In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies
-- John Gresham Machen -
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
-- John of the Cross -
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I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.
-- Joichi Ito -
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
-- Joseph Addison -
There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.
-- Kathleen McGowan -
Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?
-- Lisa Kleypas -
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What did you do today to receive your instruction?
-- Louis Pasteur -
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
-- Maria Montessori -
Discipling involves instruction and imitation.
-- Mark Dever -
The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
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Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.
-- Noah ScalinSource : Noah Scalin (2016). “365 Expanded Edition: A Daily Creativity Journal”, p.209, Voyageur Press (MN)
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Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
-- Pat Riley -
Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.
-- Peter StuyvesantSource : "Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York". Book by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan and John Romeyn Brodhead, 1853.
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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
-- Plato -
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The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.
-- Robert Briffault -
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
-- Scott Westerfeld -
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
-- Simon Sinek -
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I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed.
-- Sonia Gandhi -
We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
-- Thomas Huxley -
What instruction the baby brings to the mother!
-- Thomas Wentworth HigginsonSource : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation
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I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.
-- Treat WilliamsSource : "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.
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It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
-- William Shakespeare -
I always tell people, I can't teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can't teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga.
-- Beryl Bender Birch -
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Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.
-- Robert L. Payton -
This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.
-- Winnie Holzman -
The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.
-- Alan Chadwick -
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.
-- Matthea HarveySource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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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 -
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden