Mechanism Quotes

• A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Life
  • Character
  • Relationship

• Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Community
  • Conscience
  • Defense

• I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

  

  Alexander Stepanov
  • Used
  • Mechanism
  • Virtuals

• You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it more than it will bear. But as to self — that's different. Your mechanism may be bent, Your carbureter gone to grass, Your engine just a rusty mass. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs, And on you skip, and skid, and slide, Without a thought of things inside. What fools indeed we mortals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
  • Car
  • Model
  • Dogs

• Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Democracy
  • Capitalism
  • Protester

• And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • People
  • Problem
  • Found

• All the energy in the universe is evenly present in all places at the same time. We don't get energy, we release energy. And the triggering mechanism to release energy is desire. When you have a strong desire to do something, you will always have the energy to do it.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Energy
  • Desire
  • Universe

• Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

  

  Declan Donnellan
  • Nature
  • Acting
  • Mechanism

• When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Education
  • Things

• Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

  

  Tessanne Chin
  • Singing
  • Mechanism
  • Coping

• In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Friendship
  • Values
  • Individuality

• Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Mechanism
  • Reproduction
  • Vital organisms

• The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

  

  Nicola Barker
  • Back
  • Mechanism
  • Set

• For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sense
  • Creature
  • Mechanism

• Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

  

  Monica Raymund
  • Lying
  • Survival
  • Technique

• We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Die
  • Destruction
  • Mechanism

• What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered.

  

  Gavin de Beer
  • Patterns
  • Genes
  • Mechanism

• Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

  

  Will Steffen
  • Environment
  • Climate
  • Stores

• Failure is the mechanism of learning.

  

  Geoffrey Ballard
  • Learning
  • Mechanism

• Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

  

  Paul Dini
  • Creativity
  • Comfortable
  • Mechanism

• Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Mechanism

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