There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions. . . nothing.
I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my word. I do not interfere in the decisions of the Central Bank and I do not give instructions to the Bank management or to its head.
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Listening to nature's operating instructions.
Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.
Following instructions is overrated.
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.