Quotes About Mechanism

As your child's biological rhythms evolve for day sleep, your general goal is to synchronize your soothing-to-sleep activities with her internal timing mechanism for sleep. This is no different from being sensitive to her need to be fed or changed. Many

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

The turntable drops down and the record swings into its place in the pile. The purple light goes off. The nickel, which has caused all this mechanism to work, has caused Crosby to sing and an orchestra to play—this nickel drops from between the contact points into the box where the profits go. This nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction.

Elisha Graves Otis had demonstrated an elevator at the Crystal Palace in 1853 that had a safety device that prevented it from falling if the cable broke.3 In the cast-iron Haughwout Building on Broadway at Broome Street, where china and cutlery were sold, Otis installed the first of his passenger safety-elevators

Man is a mechanism for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Said researcher Snowden, "Here we have a nonhuman primate model that has to solve the same problems that we do: to stay together and maintain a monogamous relationship, to rear children, and oxytocin may be a mechanism they use to maintain the relationship.

We are apt to be angry with this cruel hardness in our life—this unflinching regularity in the smaller wheels and meaner mechanism of the human machine, which knows no stoppage or cessation, though the mainspring be forever hollow, and the hands pointing to purposeless figures on a shattered dial.

Uno, non toccare le lancette. Due, domina la rabbia. Tre, non innamorarti mai è poi mai. Altrimenti, nell'orologio del tuo cuore, la grande lancetta delle ore ti trafiggerà per sempre la pelle, le tue ossa si frantumeranno e la meccanica del cuore andrà di nuovo in pezzi

Tengo la impresión de que sus corazones merecerían, aún más que el mío , los cuidados de un buen relojero.

La mecánica del corazón no puede funcionar sin emociones.

Öncelikle, ibrelerine dokunma. ?kincisi, öfkene hakim ol. Üçüncüsü, sak?n ama sak?n a??k olay?m deme. Çünkü olursan, kalbindeki saatin yelkovan? derini deler, kemiklerinin parçalar ve kalbinin mekanizmas? tekrardan bozulur. (syf. 20)

Appena ti stabilisci in un posto fisso, non dimenticare di trovarti un orologiaio. - Un dottore vorrai dire! - No, no, per carità! Per i tuoi problemi, non rivolgerti mai a un dottore. Non capirebbe niente. Per regolare il tuo cuore, devi trovare un orologiaio.

The object of biology is to grasp that which makes a living being a living being, that is, not--according to the realist postulate common to both mechanism and vitalism--the superposition of elementary reflexes or the intervention of a 'vital force,' but an indecomposable structure of behavior. It is by means of ordered reactions that we can understand the automatic reactions as degradations. Just as anatomy refers back to physiology, physiology refers back to biology.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending on the goals that you yourself set for it. Present it with "success goals," and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully, as a Failure Mechanism.

The Two General Types of Servo-Mechanisms Servo-mechanisms are divided into two general types: (1) where the target, goal, or answer is known and the objective is to reach it or accomplish it, and (2) where the target or answer is not known and the objective is to discover or locate it.

All that the forebrain does is to select the goal, trigger it into action by desire, and feed information to the automatic mechanism so that your hand continually corrects its course.

The automatic mechanism then duplicates this successful response on future trials. It has "learned" how to respond successfully. It forgets its failures, and repeats the successful action without any further conscious thought—that is, as a habit.