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Quotes About Instructions

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.
~ Keith Barry
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
~ John Bigelow
As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties begin. At this time, a coach needs to go into more detail with his instructions, and that's where the problems can lie.
~ Ottmar Hitzfeld
It's true," said Freddie Humbert. "Kids nowadays have got no ability to listen to simple instructions." "Here you go, Dad," said Quent, returning with a tray of drinks. "Two martinis, one with extra olives, one with no olives, one mineral water, ice, and a twist of lime, and a jade juice, no fruit.
~ Lauren Child
It's true,' said Freddie Humbert, 'kids nowadays have got no ability to listen to simple instructions.' 'Here you go, Dad,' said Quent, returning with a tray of drinks. 'Two martinis, one with extra olives, one with no olives, one mineral water, ice and a twist of lime and a jade juice, no fruit.
~ Lauren Child
On May 8, 1519, amid frenzied preparations for departure, King Charles delivered his final instructions
~ Laurence Bergreen
for the voyage to Magellan and Faleiro, instructions so detailed that the two commanders might have thought the king
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan's nephew, eventually sought refuge in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, where he dictated instructions that suggest the depth of shame stirred
~ Laurence Bergreen
He had been instructed that once the hold with the cargo of skins was sealed, the ship's smoke-detecting system was to be turned off and was to remain switched off until the last passenger had disembarked in New York.
~ Gordon Thomas
Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me, I told them. One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. Really? said one. No you idiot, I said in disgust. I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.
~ James Patterson
I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me,i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.
~ James Patterson
Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
~ Paul Watson
I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don't necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.
~ John Torode
Because of multiple aspirations, I have defied the tragic tale of suffering And have taken instructions to subdue self-grasping; Now, even if I die, I have no remorse.
~ Thupten Jinpa
There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I
~ Connie Willis
There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones.
~ Connie Willis
Tenzo Ky?kun, or as I have entitled it in English, Instructions for the Zen Cook, was written over a period of years by Eihei D?gen Zenji (1200–1253), who was intimately familiar with both the Rinzai and S?t? schools of Zen, and finally completed in 1237. More specifically, it was written for D?gen's immediate disciples living with him in a monastery in medieval Japan.
~ D?gen
But she became more interested in DNA's less-celebrated sibling, RNA. It's the molecule that actually does the work in a cell by copying some of the instructions coded by the DNA and using them to build proteins.
~ Walter Isaacson
If you want your appliance to work right, it's a good idea to install the batteries correctly with the plus signs facing the right way.
~ Charles Petzold
In his disobedience, your brother is alive. You, in your resentful subservience, are dead. Do you think God wants mindless worshippers who can only follow instructions?
~ Chester Brown
What the hell were you up to?" Jordie waited for the voice to give him instructions, tell him what to do or say, but the voice was gone. He looked the deputy sheriff in the face and grinned. "I was just gonna kill 'em, is all.
~ Chet Williamson
cultural traditions are instructions for living: when we violate them, for instance by not having a Christmas tree or by serving pie at a birthday party, it can feel somehow wrong.
~ Heath White
I again flourished my papers: "Here're my credentials from the Coalition Administration." The American scrutinized the papers, shook his head in amazement, and smiled. "A South African," he said. "You're sure a long way from home." He radioed through for instructions and indicated that I should bring my hired car up to the side of the roadblock and wait.
~ Lawrence Anthony
La planificación en forma de horarios y escaletas predeterminados, las instrucciones claras y la constante supervisión no harían sino acarrear enormes beneficios: «Así se previenen los errores, en vez de corregirlos cuando se cometen.
~ Lawrence Freedman