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Quotes About Instruction

You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
~ Baron von Steuben
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
~ John D. Rockefeller
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
~ Channing Pollock
Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
~ William Shakespeare
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
~ Buckminster Fuller
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
~ Dr. Perle Thompson
We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.
~ Brendon Burchard
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
~ Joyce Brothers
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
~ Simone Weil
During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
~ Joseph Goebbels
**** it, holler them across.
~ Jubal Early
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
~ John Adams
Are we still lecturing—which, as the writer George Leonard observed, is the "best way to get information from teacher's notebook to student's notebook without touching the student's mind"?
~ Susan D. Blum
Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
By the end we were lobotomised of all ability to think for ourselves. We were trained to live by instruction and learned to live without thought. The whole set-up meant no one could flourish as an individual – which was exactly the point. We were homogenised for the ease of others.
~ Susannah Constantine
We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.
~ Jerry Kramer
Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Oh, Micheal darling!""Don't call me darling, I'm a driving instructor!
~ Hilary McKay, Saffy's Angel
O que você sugeriu é, com efeito, um sistema auxiliar de instrução que daria a todas as crianças que frequentam as escolas um conhecimento dos assuntos práticos da vida, direto da fonte original. Seria essa a ideia?
~ Napoleon Hill
FAITH is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of autosuggestion.
~ Napoleon Hill
Una mente dominada por emociones positivas llega a ser una excelente morada para el estado mental conocido bajo el nombre de fe. Una mente así dominada puede, a capricho, dictar al subconsciente instrucciones que se aceptarán inmediatamente.
~ Napoleon Hill
that wealth leads to the rise of education
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We are instructed to write down not just our deeds but our feelings, because it must be known that we do have feelings. Remorse. Regret. Sorrow too great to bear. Because if we didn't feel those things, what monsters would we be?
~ Neal Shusterman