Mechanically Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions,… — Barry Green
Many feel compelled to be connected around the clock because we are afraid we'll miss something important. There is a growing movement to step out… — Leatrice Eiseman
Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real… — Michael O'Donoghue
We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as… — Henry Moseley
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man… — Marlon Brando
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many… — Ambrose Bierce
If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically… — Steven Chu
It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead. — Gerald Stanley Lee
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. — D. H. Lawrence
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it… — Hilary Mantel
It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that… — Ellen G. White
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares… — AndreÃ¯ Makine
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care… — Joan Didion
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. — Roland Barthes
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes… — Michel Foucault
Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved… — John Steinbeck

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