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Quotes About Instruction

a child hears the question as a question, not as something he needs to do. Also, don't just say, It's time for bed. That's not as definite a directive as parents think it is. Be absolutely clear, explicit, and direct: Please go to your room and put your pajamas on and get in your bed. Clarity is not only good for your child, it's also good for you and your family.
~ Alan E. Kazdin
It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.
~ Suki Waterhouse
I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.
~ Maureen O'Sullivan
I give a lot of instruction in training. It's difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want.
~ Jose Mourinho
What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That's what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
~ Jocko Willink
You can either dab or swirl," he said, leaning forward to show me. Which put him even closer, close enough that it was almost an embrace. So close that my mouth went dry. "Personally"--he cleared his throat--"I like the swirl.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
the true apostle is on the lookout for occasions of announcing Christ by word, either to unbelievers to draw them towards the faith, or to the faithful to instruct them, strengthen them, and incite them to a more fervent life…. (DLA, 6)
~ Ralph Martin
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expository preaching is the contemporization of the central proposition of a biblical text that is derived from proper methods of interpretation and declared through effective means of communication to inform minds, instruct hearts, and influence behavior toward godliness. The
~ Ramesh Richard
Well, that was a huge step. We had an instruction set. We could move data around. We could do conditionals. We could do most of the things a simple chip can do. We had the visual cortex for our display. The auditory cortex for our speakers. The motor cortex for our input. On top of that, we could write any damn software we wanted.
~ Ramez Naam
That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.
~ Raph Koster
One evening, before shooting her live show, she gave me but one instruction, which has haunted me to this day: "Make sure you present the real me. There is nothing worse than a book that sugar-coats the truth and ducks the humanity of the person. I wish you forty years in purgatory if you do that!" Hoping to steer clear of that ignoble end, I have written a book that does not avoid controversy or the seeming contradictions inherent in Mother Angelica's character:
~ Raymond Arroyo
We get into wisdom the hard way, through the Lord's instruction and discipline, through being chastened and corrected.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
The Bible has its eye primarily on the ultimate marriage between the Son of God and his redeemed bride. That eternal romance is the biblical view of marriage, offering both instruction and hope for our own marriages today.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
plan yet, Jaynes." She grimaced. Probably because she hadn't had one. "Just get as far away from the church as you can," she instructed grimly, her satin gown hissing against the leather as she shifted into a move comfortable position. Eyes darting nervously between the road and the rearview mirror, her timid driver
~ Rhonda Nelson
15. Lbers rud. (lber as adj. means free, but in the m. pl. it can also = children.—rudi, rudre, rudv, rudtum, to instruct, train, educate; a wonderful etymology, meaning lit. to get someone ex/ out of being rudis/ rough, crude, unpolished—so, gentle reader, learn Latin, cease to be "rude," become "erudite," and rejoice in your "erudition"!)
~ Richard A. LaFleur
Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students
~ Richard Allington
One of my favorite posters says, "Life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been a real life you would have been instructed where to go and what to do." Whenever I think of this humorous bit of wisdom, it reminds me to not take my life so seriously.
~ Richard Carlson
I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.
~ Julia Child
Sit yourself down, Joan instructed as we reached the the fag-fogged, gin-scented den that was nominally her sitting room.
~ Julian Barnes