Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole."
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Instruction
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Freeman Tilden
Author
"The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation."
Bryan Adams
Singer-Songwriter
"There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
Treat Williams
Actor
"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey."
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"When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity."
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"The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task."
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"Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature."
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"Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction."
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"When all else fails, read the instructions."
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"When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation."
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"Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why."
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"I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed."
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"Life's metaphors are God's instructions."
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"One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity."
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"We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions."
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"Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others."
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"Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions."
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"As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them."
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"The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know."
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"It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself."
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"Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns."
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"Public instruction should be the first object of government."
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"We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction."
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"There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong."
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