Mechanical Quotes
325 quotes by 272 authors
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I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect…
— Greg Iles
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Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
— John Maeda
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In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
— Oliver Evans
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization,…
— Ralph Adams Cram
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The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts.…
— Mary Barnett Gilson
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The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the…
— Isaac Newton
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RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as…
— Edvard Munch
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The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
— Damien Hirst
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Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle…
— Joshua Reynolds
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It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do,…
— Rollo May
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Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system -…
— Graham Collier
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I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is…
— E. J. Hughes
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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he…
— Arnold Palmer
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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter…
— William Osler
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