Quotes About Instruction

#1. Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

Pete Dexter

#2. The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

John Rosemond

#3. The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Richard P. Feynman

#4. Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.

James Stephens

#5. The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Robert Briffault

#6. The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

Aristotle.

#7. When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Emile Zola

#8. The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

Immanuel Kant

#9. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Tryon Edwards

#10. Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f.

Daniel Kahneman

#11. Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life. - Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

Ellen G. White

#12. In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

#13. I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

Jeff Lindsay

#14. My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.

James Preston Rogers

#15. You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

Lewis Black

#16. That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

#17. Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Jean Paul

#18. The holy scriptures contain no proclamation more relevant, no responsibility more binding, no instruction more direct than the injunction given by the resurrected Lord as He appeared in Galilee to the eleven disciples.

Thomas S. Monson

#19. Implication and instruction are vastly different creatures,

Julie Johnson

#20. Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.

Iyanla Vanzant

#21. If Jesus simply came to tell us what to do and provide moral instruction so we could try harder to please God, then his life would have been an utter failure.

Matt Perman

#22. It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance ... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.

Adolf Hitler

#23. As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Plutarch

#24. The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel's 'miraculous' military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion's side.

Rick Perlstein

#25. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!

Derek Rydall

#26. Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#27. History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.

Edward Gibbon

#28. I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

Phil Robertson

#29. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Plato

#30. A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#31. We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

Howard Pyle

#33. Lead by example, not by instruction.

Jared Matthew Kessler

#34. I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Ingrid Betancourt

#35. I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Daniel Akaka

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

Hermann Hesse

#37. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#38. Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#39. If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#40. Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#41. Never chide with anger, but instruction.

William Penn

#42. The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.

William Matthews

#43. I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

Ben Shneiderman

#44. Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#45. Without thinking, [Will] spoke.
'Halt? Are you awake?'
'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable.
'Oh. Sorry.'
'Shut up.'
He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent.

John Flanagan

#46. Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#47. There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#48. First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place ...

Hippocrates

#49. I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

Jess Row

#50. To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

Maria Montessori

#51. The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

Alan Chadwick

#52. The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.

Isaac Watts

#53. But the time draws on for experience and observation to take the place of instruction: if

Fanny Burney

#54. Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Alexander Hamilton

#55. But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.

Pema Chodron

#56. Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

John Amos Comenius

#57. A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

Thomas Jefferson

#58. The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).

Jasper Rees

#59. In our time, no less than any other, traditionalists should live out their faiths and their ways in the world, confident that their instruction and example will make that world better and that people will be drawn to the spark.

Yuval Levin

#60. Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.

Laura Schlessinger

#61. We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

Maria Montessori

#62. Double your life experience by learning a second language.
-Taru

Taru Nieminen

#63. They are doing for their pupils the work which the pupils themselves ought to do. For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#64. A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#65. Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Carter Burwell

#66. My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

Hannah More

#67. I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

Lajos Kossuth

#68. 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

#69. In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Samuel Richardson

#70. Try to breathe, he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you.
I breathed.

Alice Sebold

#71. Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Leonard Bernstein

#72. Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Thomas Huxley

#73. This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

James Henry Breasted

#74. In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Richard LaGravenese

#75. Learn more about Marcus Phillips, CTO and Head of Instruction at Hack Reactor Learn more about Hack Reactor. Learn more about the Twitter Chat on this topic on 2/12/2014.

Anonymous

#76. With the growing popularity in e-learning, it occurred to me that the e should mean more than electronic. If we are going to call it e-learning, shouldn't it be effective, efficient, and engaging?

M David Merrill

#77. Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.

Sheryl G. Feinstein

#78. Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

John Updike

#79. Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Walter Savage Landor

#80. Conversation with a view to timely instruction will help to build up a strong Christian character and stimulate growth in grace.

F.F. Bruce

#81. Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

A.W. Tozer

#82. A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

David Nicholls

#83. We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

Steve Miller

#84. The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#85. Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Frances Wright

#86. But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

#87. Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#88. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

#89. Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

Napoleon Hill

#90. Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Benjamin Franklin

#91. Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment - originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.18

Jonathan Haidt

#92. People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

Richard Saul Wurman

#93. There is nothing which indicates the inspiration of the Scriptures more than the factual and faithful record of men and their failures ... These records are for our warning and instruction. They show us how sinful man needs God.

Billy Graham

#94. all learners benefited from the deductive instruction regardless of differences in aptitude.

Patsy M. Lightbown

#95. The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#96. [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Albert Bandura

#97. The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Freeman Tilden

#98. If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

Stockwell Day

#99. I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

John Williams

#100. The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations ... cannot be particularized without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the instruction it might afford.

Alexander Hamilton