Quotes About Mechanism

Rusbridger had risen at the Guardian through the years when it not only had the support and fail-safe mechanism of the Scott Trust, but guaranteed operating income from public-service advertising. Nobody had to sell anything.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

The human mind has a primitive ego defince mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called denial.

We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.

Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, 'That object is me.' We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.

La mente humana tiene un primitivo mecanismo de defensa que niega cualquier realidad que provoque un estrés excesivo al cerebro. Se llama negación".

La negación es parte fundamental del mecanismo de supervivencia humana. Sin ella, despertaríamos cada mañana aterrorizados, pensando en las innumerables formas en que podríamos morir. En cambio, nuestra mente bloquea esos miedos existenciales centrándose solo en las tensiones que puede afrontar, como llegar al trabajo a tiempo o pagar los impuestos.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

master switches and both magnetos

IV. IS MAN A MACHINE? Yes, said Julien Offroy de La Mettrie.

Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets...

the crashing of the games, his heart hammering. When the fear came, it was like some half-forgotten friend. Not the cold, rapid mechanism of the dex-paranoia, but simple animal fear. He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

Theologians have by this time stretched their minds so as to embrace the darwinian facts, and yet to interpret them as still showing divine purpose. It used to be a question of purpose AGAINST mechanism, of one OR the other. It was as if one should say My shoes are evidently designed to fit my feet, hence it is impossible that they should have been produced by machinery.

The clock tells you it's time to wake up. One machine giving instructions to another.

Considering the energy balance, the reduction in size and the rise in temperature of the black hole form a feedback mechanism that ultimately must lead to its explosion: The more energy it radiates, the hotter it gets. The hotter it is, the more energy it radiates. And as its energy rises, the ultimate outcome is inescapable: The black hole must explode.

The conscience is the innate mechanism God created in human nature to sound an inner alarm in an attempt to prevent people from taking harmful actions.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

Time, that dull mechanism that usually reliably stamped out one second after another, like parts on a conveyor belt, erupted into a glorious melody.

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism. If there's a group of lawyers, they have their own slang. If there's a group of doctors, they have their own slang, and so on.

John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.