Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 279 authors

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,… — Sam Keen
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position… — Edward Bok
From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have… — Jean Giono
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a… — Anais Nin
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be… — John Steinbeck
Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics… — Brian Greene
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. — Max Weber
The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of… — Terence McKenna
Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat,… — Lord Kelvin
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. — P D Ouspensky
The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon… — Charles Horton Cooley
There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the… — Dick Trickle
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed — Margaret J. Wheatley
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content. — Carl Magnusson
What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. — Jeanette
The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the… — Garrett Hardin
Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development. — Alexey Suetin
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a… — Oscar Wilde
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned… — Isaac Newton
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a… — Marshall McLuhan

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