Quotes About Instructive

Gossip is instructive," said the Wizard. "It tells which way the wind is blowing.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Sweet or bitter, I am now convinced that all experience is enriching and rewarding. Above all, instructive.

The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.

Y, aunque espero que estas Memorias han de ser instructivas, no han de ayudarles a conseguir que las mujeres se sientan más atraídas por ustedes de lo que ustedes se sientan por ellas. Si, en el fondo, ustedes las odian, si sueñan con humillarlas, si gozan mostrándose autoritarios, es posible que ellas les paguen en la misma moneda. Ellas les querrán y les desearán tanto como ustedes las deseen y las quieran a ellas, bendita sea su generosidad.

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation, especially if it is based on the self-analysis of a mature mind and is written with no vain desire to rouse our sympathy and curiosity. The problem with Rousseau's Confessions is that he read them to his friends.

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.

Marcus de Obregón is appealing and, yes, instructive, but is not entirely successful because the author often forgot he was writing a novel, not his memoirs.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

Beveridgefn20 is a good thing though – that's all right, so long as people don't start relaxing with a sigh of relief. (I've just been reading Bev. – a fine piece of work – thorough and equitable – and it will be a good fight, trying to get it put into operation – doomed to failure I surmise, but instructive.)

Everything I ever learned about rock, I learned from Led Zeppelin.

Incluso las ideas se pueden considerar abundantes, en cierto modo, porque es posible propagarlas sin límite debido a su naturaleza «no competitiva». Como escribió Thomas Jefferson, el creador del sistema de patentes en Estados Unidos: «Quien recibe una idea de mí, recibe una instrucción para él sin disminuir la mía; como aquel que enciende su vela en la mía, recibe luz sin dejarme en la oscuridad».

Virginia law, in 1831, is instructive and representative.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

Don't be too didactic. Your writing shouldn't teach someone, your story should.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

I learned that politicians are not supposed to help people. They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing. It was very instructive. I could probably have enlisted more action from a bleached jellyfish washed ashore in a seasonal storm.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the lovely and instructive time that I was fortunate enough to spend in Sweden.

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.