Quotes of Mechanism - somelinesforyou

“ Men have become the tools of their tools. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. ”

- Orville Wright

“ Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ”

- Owen Meredith

“ One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. ”

- Marcel Pagnol

“ We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Have thy tools ready; God will find thee work. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. ”

- Henri Louis Bergson

“ Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way. ”

- Swami Ramdas

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Technology and the machine resurrected San Francisco while Pompeii still slept in her ashes. ”

- Silas Bent

“ What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm. ”

- Cicely Tyson

“ Now again, there are so many gadgets on cameras now that people abandon these simpler instruments for the more sure instruments. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ The universe is a machine for making gods. ”

- Henri Bergson

“ If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ The mechanics are universal. The game really doesn't change much. There's more information, you're able to watch things more closely, but those are tools to help you. ”

- Don Mattingly

“ Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. - Thich Nhat Hanh. ”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“ The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries. ”

- Pete Townshend

“ To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. ”

- Valerie Solanis

“ The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked. ”

- Unknown
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