Quotes About Instrument

Apollo: A man of honor never surrenders his ukelele.

For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the court of judgment of calculation, the instrument of domination, and the means for the greatest exploitation of nature.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife.

The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.

Next to his pecker, a picker's fingers are his most precious body parts.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

The supple line of his jaw and the fixed plane of his collarbone functioned together like a precisely calibrated instrument that seemed to become a separate living thing as we watched.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

I regard radio broadcasting as a sort of cleansing instrument for the mind, just as the bathtub is for the body.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

snare drum creates the backbeat (the driving rhythm

The instrument that you play on, Pollyanna, will be the great heart of the world; and to me that seems the most wonderful instrument of all—to learn. Under your touch, if you are skilful, it will respond with smiles or tears, as you will.

Father says that I'm one little instrument in the great Orchestra of Life, and that I must see to it that I'm always in tune, and don't drag or hit false notes

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.