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Quotes About Directive

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Self-preservation was a basic directive, but there wasn't a robot functioning that prioritized it at the top of the list. Like biologicals all robots were seeking a purpose. Autos and drones were lucky enough to have that built into them. A bot had to find his own way and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless. The real question was finding a directive worth getting scrapped for.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Semua harus datang karena panggilanku. Semua harus pergi karena usiranku.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Of course we care," Thomas answered. "But what do you want us to do about it?" "Hey, all I know is that WICKED has one directive – to find a cure. And it's pretty obvious that's never gonna happen. If we had their money, their resources, we could use it to really help. To protect the healthy. I thought you'd want that." Thomas did, of course. Desperately. Gally shrugged when no one responded.
~ James Dashner
I've been ordered to take you down to the bridge.
~ Douglas Adams
Utah, just waiting for the word to be given by the
~ Alan Jacobson
Sit yourself down, Joan instructed as we reached the the fag-fogged, gin-scented den that was nominally her sitting room.
~ Julian Barnes
When you command, remember 'tis but speech To bid a thing be acted to your mind
~ WILLIAM BASSE
Ultimately, organizations run through directive approaches fail. They might perform in the very short term, but they can never sustain it. Or they drive people away; they don't like working where they are treated like idiots.
~ David Brock
I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
~ Gore Vidal
Stop staring and call your brother', Dane snaps over his shoulder as he heads toward the stairs.
~ Jane Porter
I have a directive not to kill anyone if I don't have to. Unfortunately, I've had to disobey that directive on numerous occasions. I don't like doing it, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do." - Sam Fisher
~ David Michaels
ideas—and where facts were scarce, directive questions. Other
~ David Quammen
A question is not a supplication, an entreaty, nor a velleity for knowledge just put out in the air; it is already an order, a command. (Beggars, the destitute, pupils, factory workers, enlisted soldiers, prisoners, and patients have no right to question; they can only entreat.?) A question commands a certain focus of attention, a selection of resources on hand, a certain type of language. It lays down a direction; it imposes a directive to think further down a certain track.
~ Alphonso Lingis
The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.
~ RuPaul
A worthy editor has one primary directive: to make the creative people look good. To do this, he must sometimes demand further work. He doesn't do it casually. Remember, more work for you means more work for him, too. If
~ Dennis O'Neil
That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.
~ Eoin Colfer
Juliet klapte in haar handen. 'Heb jij eigenlijk ooit wel eens een bevel opgevolgd?' 'Het was een soort non-bevel en ik volg trouwens alleen bevelen op als ze redelijk zijn.' - Holly
~ Eoin Colfer
His (Claude Legrand's) method is founded in a simple directive: Don't conclude that the problem as it's first presented, or as you first perceive it, is indeed the actual problem. If you do, and you've got it wrong, the solution you produce may also be wrong. The first step to figuring out what your problem is, Legrand says, is to deconstruct it by questioning it.
~ Amanda Lang
Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Recognizing that confidence and fearlessness were attitudes that could be adopted and taught by example, Churchill issued a directive to all ministers to put on a strong, positive front.
~ Erik Larson
I can't think of anything to send a memo about," he said. "And anyway, there was that memo we got the other day telling us not to send too many memos.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Liberating Water Directive is all about water. More succinctly put, the ways of water.
~ Douglas P Fish