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Quotes About Instruction

Every session we do we try and talk about the way we want to play, I try to organize the sessions in a way that the players can understand the way I want them to play.
~ Roberto Di Matteo
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
~ David R. Brower
Remember what I told you to forget?
~ Unknown
Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD
~ Unknown
Whatever depends on conditions Is empty of inherent existence, What excellent instruction could there be, More amazing than these words?
~ Unknown
What did I say about staying put?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Please don't come back with a pet camel," she said. "And don't make friends with any scorpions! Also snakes; snakes are bad, try to remember that.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Like most sailors, he is widely ignorant outside his own profession; he has indeed read a certain amount, more than most of his kind, but late reading, useless as a foundation; he is convinced that no one else has ever done so, and he is a fountain of gratuitous instruction. A want of modesty: a fine fund of self-complacence.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Mr. Lassiter, you know better than that," the judge said icily. He turned to the jury box. "The jury shall disregard Mr. Lassiter's last statement." I didn't mind the instruction. In my experience, jurors forget most everything I say, except what the judge tells them to disregard.
~ Paul Levine
em," she said softly. "That guy with the sexy voice told 'em to get ready
~ Pearl Cleage
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
~ Hippocrates
You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.
~ Duane Michals
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
~ Agnes Repplier
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
~ Samuel Johnson
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
~ Seth Godin
Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.
~ Unknown
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
~ William James
Never give orders—give instructions. … Make a game out of your work. … The greatest dividend in human life is happiness.
~ Daniel Yergin
Other useful commands to teach your dog are 'stay,' 'heel,' 'remove your snout from that person's groin,' 'stop humping the Barcalounger,' 'do not bark violently for two hours at inanimate objects such as a flowerpot,' ' do not eat poop,' and 'if you must eat poop, then at least refrain from licking my face afterward'.
~ Dave Barry
Children who had difficulty in learning basic skills were to be given special instruction to remedy those weak or unlearned skills.
~ Dave Pelzer
Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.
~ David Baldacci
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally.
~ David Brin
what was the very first injunction laid by the Lord upon our first ancestor? . . . name all the beasts .
~ David Brin
As Seth Lloyd puts it: "To do anything requires energy. To specify what is done requires information."3
~ David Christian