Mechanism Quotes

366 Mechanism quotes by 316 unique authors

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you… — Maxwell Maltz
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by… — Adam Sedgwick
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it… — Doris Lessing
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. — George Washington
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities… — Albert Einstein
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece… — Unknown Author
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Fashion has always been my defense mechanism. — Rihanna
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and… — Ted Allen
Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie.… — Rosie Perez
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with… — David Hemmings
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. — Peter Shumlin
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, — Julia Gillard
The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval… — Douglas Alexander
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie
Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead? — Galway Kinnell
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change. — Elizabeth Gilbert
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area… — Unknown Author
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires. — Unknown Author
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,… — D. H. Lawrence
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. — Garry Shandling
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a… — Brian Sutton-Smith

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