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Quotes About Instruction

Never tell a computer to forget it.
~ Larry Niven
These passages often reflect the use of "Father" in GMatthew to represent "God's" relationship to Jesus' followers as well. So, e.g., believers are instructed to pray invoking "Our Father in heaven" (Matt 6:9), and they are to live in the knowledge that "your Father" sees all and will act accordingly (Matt 6:1-18).
~ Larry W. Hurtado
If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.
~ Lauren Bacall
This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.
~ Lauren Myracle
In the time of Philotimus, a notable Greek physician several centuries BCE, sufferers complaining of a light head were instructed to wear a lead helmet in hopes of a cure. Chrysippus of Cnidus, a contemporary, believed that people with depression should eat more cauliflower while carefully avoiding basil because it could incite someone to insanity.
~ Lauren Slater
It is not your job in life to instruct everyone as to what his or her proper opinion or conduct should be.
~ Laurence Galian
An eighteenth-century Gujarati text of the Satpanth Nizari Isma'ilis tells of a renowned Isma'ili and Sûfî master imparting Tantric spiritual instruction to a Nath Siddha Jogi master. It includes both Islamic and Tantric terms, and demonstrates the intersection of these two traditions. A portion of this document has been published with a study by Dominique Sila Khan as "Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddin and Jogi Kanipha: Tantra Revisited by the Isma'ili Preachers.
~ Laurence Galian
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
~ Charles Babbage
Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.
~ Charles Baxter
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!
~ Charles Dickens
Hacía poco que él y otros ciento cuarenta maestros habían salido al mismo tiempo de la misma fabrica, manufacturados con las mismas normas [...]. Si hubiese aprendido algunas cosas menos, habría estado en situación de enseñar muchas cosas más de una manera infinitamente mejor
~ Charles Dickens
The several duties of instruction in this establishment were thus discharged. English grammar, composition, geography, and the use of the dumb-bells, by Miss Melissa Wackles; writing, arithmetic, dancing, music, and general fascination, by Miss Sophia Wackles; the art of needle-work, marking, and samplery, by Miss Jane Wackles; corporal punishment, fasting, and other tortures and terrors, by Mrs Wackles.
~ Charles Dickens
Tutorials frustrate competent practitioners because they move too slowly and say things that are obvious (though they are anything but obvious to novices). Equally, manuals frustrate novices because they use jargon and don't explain things. This phenomenon is called the expertise reversal effect
~ Greg Wilson
In our analogy of the universe as a consciousness computer with feelings, emotions, beliefs, and prayers programming reality, it makes perfect sense that we would have an instruction manual that highlights the steps of reality making. And we do: Through the ages, the most enlightened masters have shared it with us in bits and pieces.
~ Gregg Braden
This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other shore, only this bank On which the living gather. No meaning but what we find here. No purpose but what we make. That, and the beloved's clear instructions: Turn me into song; sing me awake.
~ Gregory Orr
The mind swims laps, memory is cantilevered over genetic turmoil, and the writing goes on as if from unseen instruction, silencing, cleaving, and destabilizing words and thoughts, while the "hum" in me, the human, pushes fragments into the semblance of story.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Clear, direct and vibrant instructions will inject energy into the class, and create a feeling of safety for the students.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Before heading out on to the pitch, Johan Cruyff gave his players a simple instruction: 'Go out there and enjoy yourselves.' It was a statement that embodies an entire footballing philosophy and was central to Cruyff 's principles; yet for others, its simplicity, ahead of such a key game, might be considered an insult to the coaching profession.
~ Guillem Balagué
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.'' —Job xxxiii., 15.
~ Gustavus Hindman Miller
hold of a cow's nose for me he would say solemnly
~ James Herriot
Go give your Da a kiss," Seamus instructed my kids. And incredibly, somehow, all at the same time, that's exactly what they did.
~ James Patterson
They told us to come here
~ James Patterson