Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 279 authors

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will… — H. P. Blavatsky
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. — Elizabeth Bowen
The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went… — Dick Cheney
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it. — Kenny Chesney
From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts… — Deepak Chopra
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and… — Douglas Hofstadter
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future… — Oscar Wilde
If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly… — Alan Watts
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke. — P.G. Wodehouse
You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your… — Jack Nicklaus
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I… — Krista Allen
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -… — Rajneesh
Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new.… — Rajneesh
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine… — Ellen Goodman
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine

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