Quotes About Instruction

Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

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

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions!

Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?

Chip Robbins, how many times have I told you not to yell out for me unless you're being stabbed with a pitchfork?

If you're going to bloody the human, would you be good enough to do it in the backyard?

My client's arrived, I can tell the purr of a Porsche anywhere. It's like the sound of a woman's orgasm--something you never forget. Turning away, he paused at the archway. Something for you to work toward with her, Richard. Good luck with that, and call me if you need any instruction. I gave her her first one.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

Timing is a very important part of being a father. You should never show your kids things before they're ready. Especially with movies. Toys like Lego are okay because the fact that your 3-year-old can't understand the instructions ultimately leads you to constructing it yourself... the secret plan all along.

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, "Practice makes perfect." In most cases, practice merely confirms us in our errors, and the longer we do something the wrong way - that is, without enlightenment and instruction- the more fixed we become in our folly.

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.