Quotes About Instruction

Recreational Explosives and How to Build Them.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

I was corrected on how to stir ("from the bottom up, circling, cleaning the sides as you go"), which I assume everyone else knows but which I never seemed to get right. I was corrected on my whisk ("limp wrist, figure eight, hitting four points of the bowl as if it had corners"), which I hadn't known and which is both efficient and actually rather flash (you can reach exhilarating speeds).

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Bible teachers are to instruct in order to explain what they just did, or are about to do. Those

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.

I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice—

Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed on the sole.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All. And this latter is never possible without instruments. To claim, as is often done, that a tiny unarmed minority has successfully, by means of violence—shouting, kicking up a row, et cetera—disrupted large lecture classes whose overwhelming majority had voted for normal instruction procedures is therefore very misleading.

In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

Gracias por tu constante instrucción y preocupación por cada paso que doy en mi vida.

Once you get into it, it's all you can think about. Look, I know you don't trust my judgment because I eat cat shit. Someday I'll explain that to you. But right now do what I say. Just pick up the ball and throw it.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of mendacity.

Following Locke's doctrine that the mind is a tabula rasa, Helvetius considered the differences between individuals entirely due to differences of education: in every individual, his talents and his virtues are the effect of his instruction.