Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 279 authors

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching… — Ken Robinson
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. — Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women. — P.J. O'Rourke
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather… — Fritjof Capra
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and… — Tom Robbins
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical. — Carla Bruni
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from… — Murray Gell-Mann
Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it… — Gordon R. Dickson
The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind… — James Jeans
The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is… — Ivan Pavlov
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of… — J. C. R. Licklider
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelingsâ€”that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed.… — P D Ouspensky
Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours — William Langewiesche
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think… — Jacob Bronowski
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation.… — Donald Pleasence

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