Quotes About Mechanism

Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

The revolutionary thought, brought out more clearly in The General Theory, was that there was no automatic mechanism in a modern economic system to keep intended saving in equilibrium with intended investment.

No creo en la literatura como dietario, como diario de vida, como crónica personal; yo creo en la literatura como literatura, como un mecanismo, como una máquina autosuficiente, al menos con una autosuficiencia grande.

Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers is condemned to inherit the superstitions and tribal hatreds of its predecessors.

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

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Uma campainha elétrica ressoou. A mulher pressionou um interruptor e a música cessou. "Acho que tenho de ver quem é", ela pensou, resignada, e pôs sua poltrona em movimento. A poltrona, assim como a música, era acionada por um mecanismo e deslizou com a mulher para o outro lado do quarto de onde provinha o som inoportuno da campainha.

Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius—he wants its bones and flesh.

If it draws blood, it's hardware.

To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral public policy. Public policy must account for the historic and intentional pillaging of resources experienced by black Americans.

Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions.

Given the right lever you can move a planet.

Le concept de progrès agit comme un mécanisme de protection destiné à nous isoler des terreurs de l'avenir.

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn't know that's happening! Doesn't believe that's happening! That's the fascinating part.

The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder.

America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.

The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.