Quotes About Mechanism

Traditional theory said that hardware was a limit," Ericsson said. "But if people are able to transform the mechanism that mediates performance by training, then we're in an entirely new space. This is a biological system, not a computer. It can construct itself.

Pain is not weakness leaving the body. It's a protective mechanism that, when ignored, will simply turn up the volume until you have to pay attention. Good luck with that.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a pudding we are eating and not a poached baby elephant, though we think we are eating our daily pudding!

Every sort of economic organization needs not only a mechanism for production but also a mechanism for distributing what is produced.

if you wanted to flush the toilet you had to lift the lid off the water tank, roll up a sleeve, and reach deep into the cold and rusty water to manipulate the valves.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

The economy is like a machine.

Almost everything is like a machine.

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.

Illegal immigration is not merely a mechanism for changing the political, religious and cultural composition of America; it is literally a mechanism for changing, in ways that Americans have not agreed to and immigration laws have not authorized, the actual DNA of America.

But, in fact, the ready distractibility of attention is a biological necessity, developed through millions of years of evolution as a protective mechanism against unexpected danger: this is the primary function of the visceral level.

A person, product, or brand that can help us survive or thrive activates a survival mechanism within us that piques our curiosity.

I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt.

Fortunately the City is vigilant. It too has its secret weapons. Since the summer it has released safety valves that form part of a wonderful mechanism, known only to itself. For the past three months we've noticed the most heartening appearance all over the place of eccentrics, more or less raving lunatics, cranks, and reinvigorating crackpots.

In the spiritual lore, the human body is considered supremely sacred, as this is the only mechanism that can take a being from the limited identification of the self to the unlimited, from a bounded existence to the realm of the unbounded, to the final plunge into the vastness of the Infinite.

Through feedback, said Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth, a mechanism could embody purpose.

As D. H. Lawrence said, "I am not a mechanism.

Mechanism! Everywhere – mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

The very idea of militia comprises a far greater danger to society than any single criminal or gang. It paves the way for lynch mentality and arbitrary administration of justice. It throws the protective mechanism of society out of gear.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.