Quotes About Drill

Stop reading this book a minute. Can you hear something? Some machine turning? A waterpipe running? A distant radio or pneumatic drill digging up the road? Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

taking the samples, we'd be better off. The drill could get snagged." Slater knew she was right, but it was

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

They're so hateful, the women here. Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort. So they're having children all the time—like dogs. It's too revolting.

marksmanship on the rifle range was not as good as his drill instructors expected. Some called his work "sloppy." When

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

I've been to the dentist several times so I know the drill.

Pain is a function of nerves, Idaho reminded himself. Pain comes as light comes to the eyes. Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves. It was an old mentat drill and he completed it in the space of one breath

I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

I'm a handy-challenged, bona fide egghead who wouldn't know a drill bit from a sledgehammer." Now We Know Why It's Called a Punch List due for publication in 2019

Yes, I love Chicago in many ways, but I'm definitely not trying to fit, you know, the drill Chicago rapper.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

You work hard and you drill daily all the habits that you need to win at basketball and you're going to create a winning culture.

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

Regulations," he would say, "are all very well for drill but in the hour of danger they are no more use.… You have to learn to think." To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance.

Revolutionary' discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.

Say something enough times and you never forget it.

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself—ask any soldier.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself – ask any soldier. I stepped outside into the daylight.

The regular season, it's kind of like a rehearsal. That's the way I look at it.

If she hadn't adopted the hippie lifestyle, she would have made a terrific Marine drill sergeant.

When we went to school, we had the odd tornado drill.