Quotes About Instruction

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement. But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon. By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want." Elinor

The effect of education I suppose

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

Savio Vega kept pushing me, pushing me, as he was teaching me, too, how to be a heel and things. And how to... 'Let's just try this tonight: just, we'll lock up, you'll go behind me, rub up and down my chest.'

We saw how a lot of companies charge upwards of $1500 for a basic LSAT course, and we all thought that is simply way too much, even if the instruction was good.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies

Bruce Pandolfini, Josh's original chess teacher, started their first class by taking him in reverse. The board was empty, except for three pieces in an endgame scenario: king and pawn against king.

Merchant: ". . . If you are without possessions, how can you give?" Siddhartha: "Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish." Merchant: "Very well, and what can you give? What have you learned that you can give?" Siddhartha: "I can think, I can wait, I can fast." Merchant: "Is that all?" Siddhartha: "I think that is all.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.

The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

There is a small industry out there called media training. It offers instruction on how to 'control a narrative,' to use that awful term. Most politicians are clients.

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Well, if he comes when I'm out, tell him to wait. And now, Jeeves, mes gants, mon chapeau, et le whangee de monsieur. I must be popping.

Moral: Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched." Master

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.