I Quotes
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“Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.”
“Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.”
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
“Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.”
Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid.”
“Instruct the mothers of the French people.”
Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
“Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.”
“Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence, neither steel nor fire can eradicate the erroneous opinions of the mind.”
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.”
“Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.”
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
Source: Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
“Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.”
Source: Sermons ...
“Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.”
“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.”
“Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.”
“Instruction is important but inspiration kindles the candle for a life time.”
“Instruction is important.”
“Instruction manuals are not intended to restrict or diminish an object’s functionality, but to ensure that it functions as it was designed, at its optimal capacity.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.”
Source: A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers
“Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.”
“Instructional programming is really great. To me, it's very enjoyable to watch a process.”
“Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.”
“Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.”
Source: Before I Die
“Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go.
3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.
4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside.
5. With all your heart ask for Grace and let go.
6. With all your heart forgive him, forgive yourself and let him go.
7. Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering then, let go.
8. Watch the heat of day pass into the cold night, let go.
9. When the Karma of a relationship is done, only Love remains. It's safe, let go.
10. When the past has past from you at last, let go.. then, climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . —Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH”
“Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.”
“instructive to view things from ‘Oumuamua’s vantage point. From that object’s perspective, it was at rest and our solar system slammed into it. Or, in a way that works both metaphorically and, maybe, literally, perhaps ‘Oumuamua was like a buoy resting in the expanse of the universe, and our solar system was like a ship that ran into it at high speed.”
Source: Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
“INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.”
“Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.”
“Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.”
“Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.”
“Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“Instruments are expensive, aren't they? But it's your art though. It's a lot of money but it's your instrument - imagine buying a bass for just one sound and then a bunch of pedals. So in comparison it's not that much.”
“Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.”
“Instruments of a trade are really fascinating to me. Things that enable you to do your job better. Rehabbing houses is really fun to me. I love taking a space and seeing the potential, gutting it, and putting it back together and I love the tools used to do that.”
“Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.”
Source: Encounter with Kennan: The Great Debate
“Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.”
“Instrução aos mais capazazes, lugar aos mais competentes, trabalho a todos, eis o essencial - tudo o mais, como no Evangelho, virá por acréscimo.”
Source: Salazar: Citações
“Instrúyase a la mujer; que no hay nada en ella que le haga ser colocada en un lugar más bajo que el del hombre. Que lleve una dignidad más al corazón por la vida: la dignidad de la ilustración. Que algo más que la virtud le haga acreedora al respeto, a la admiración, al amor. Tendréis en el bello sexo instruido, menos miserables, menos fanáticas y menos mujeres nulas… Que pueda llegar a valerse por sí sola y deje de ser aquella creatura que agoniza y miseria si el padre, el esposo o el hijo no la amparan.”
“Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.”
“Insufficient facts always invite danger.”
“Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.”
“Insulate yourself...
from anonymous angry people
Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand
Precisely measure the results that are important to you
Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter
Fail often
Ship
Lead, don't manage so much
Seek out uncomfortable situations
Make an impact on the people who matter to you
Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
Copyedit less, invent more
Give more speeches
Ignore unsolicited advice”
“Insulated from all
the plastic glitter
Mankind becomes
mentally fitter
QUARANTINE+VE”
“Insulin has a significant effect on a hormone called leptin. Both insulin and leptin have significant impact on weight/obesity of a person”
Source: Added Sugars-The Slow Poison