Instruction Quotes

532 quotes by 432 authors

Q: Whatâ€™s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination… — Tom Waits
Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the… — Fannie Flagg
Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous… — Stuart Wilde
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine,… — Aldous Huxley
You have come to the shore. There are no instructions. — Denise Levertov
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and… — Joseph Fielding Smith
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its… — Eudora Welty
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden… — Thomas Moore
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They… — Philip Pullman
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,… — Anne Bronte
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps… — James M. Barrie
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not… — Charles Spurgeon
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first… — Jane Austen
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. — Jeffrey Eugenides
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity… — Daniel Webster
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed… — Nick Hornby

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