Mechanism Quotes

366 Mechanism quotes by 316 unique authors

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. — Ilya Prigogine
It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society… — Keith Olbermann
One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the… — Maurice Sendak
You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something… — Erik Qualman
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a… — Louis Schwartzberg
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at… — William Wallace Cook
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the… — Roland Barthes
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation. — Paul Hawken
Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread. — Johann Arndt
The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to… — Lawrence Klein
Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density… — Alexander Graham Bell
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism… — Linda Vester
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that… — Peter Kropotkin
My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. — Max Brooks
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. — Ann Zwinger
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new… — Ralph Adams Cram
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. — Lawrence Wright
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that… — Ron Chernow
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control. — Joseph Pilates
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not... — Aldo Leopold
The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too… — Dion Fortune
Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can… — Joseph Pilates
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist,… — Edwin Conklin
It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions. — Jaggi Vasudev

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