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Quotes About Instruction

When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
~ Ian Millar
It is not that the Church hasn't been trained in evangelism; it is not a lack of instruction or information. The fact is, if you don't love people through the eyes of Christ, the world will never be changed.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
~ Ian Dunbar
Kids are kids. They still need handholding. No matter how trained they are, they need to be told what to do. They need to learn lines and understand blocking. You can't just say, 'I want you to walk from here to there and deliver your line.'
~ Sean Baker
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
~ Maria Montessori
When learning boxing and martial arts, there wasn't any fakery in my training. When teaching you the basics of fighting, even though it's faked for the camera, they teach you to do it for real.
~ Tom Payne
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
~ Karisma Kapoor
I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
~ Rakul Preet Singh
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
~ Elia Kazan
Those who do wrong unintentionally are in need of instruction, not punishment.
~ Socrates
You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.
~ Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275
Learn to obey before you command.
~ Solon
God had told her to take fees for instruction and healing. At first she had not grasped the reason, but then it had become plain to her. By making material sacrifices, the patient strengthens his own faith. The more he has to pay, the more earnestly does he desire to be cured.
~ Stefan Zweig
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
~ John Taylor Gatto
It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.
~ Alistair Begg
Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something.
~ Michael Chabon, Moonglow
And we do that by making sure they understand the idea behind the work they're being asked to do.
~ Michael E. Gerber
Indeed, if not told to live -- if not given some kind of active instruction from another cell -- cells automatically kill themselves. Cells need a lot of reassurance.
~ Bill Bryson
Each one carries a copy of the complete genetic code—the instruction manual for your body—so it knows not only how to do its job but every other job in the body.
~ Bill Bryson
DNA molecule, as you will almost certainly remember from countless television programs if not school biology, is made up of two strands, connected by rungs to form the celebrated twisted ladder known as a double helix. Your DNA is simply an instruction manual for making you. A length of DNA is divided into segments called chromosomes and shorter individual units called genes. The sum of all your genes is the genome.
~ Bill Bryson
He'd broken the man's bone. And now he should break his fingers and both of his arms and both of his legs as instructed by the drawings. He should do it now, while the man was out. He already had the man's right arm wrapped in towels, bridging the gap between two blocks of wood. He should break it. How would BoneMan know? He hadn't seen any closed- circuit camera.
~ Ted Dekker
Most people would fiercely resist the idea that they need any instruction in how to listen to music. Because we can hear, we think we can listen. But just because we can see, we don't assume we can read. Reading
~ Julian Johnson
Addressing the non-tenure-track instructors was a ticklish and morally complicated task—akin to a ship's captain going belowdecks to rouse the galley slaves at their posts.
~ Julie Schumacher