A Quote by Agnes Allen

When all else fails, read the instructions.

Agnes Allen

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Else Fails Instructions Read When All Else Fails

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Agnes Allen
American - Baseball Player
September 21, 1930 - 2012

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

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Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

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Richard Dawkins

One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.

Madeleine Albright

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

John Frusciante

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Aberjhani

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Leonard Cohen

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Bruce Jenner

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

People hate to and will not read instructions.

Nolan Bushnell

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.

John C. Maxwell

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Matthea Harvey

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Jamaica Kincaid

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Brian Ferneyhough

I can play guitar - but I can't really. I wouldn't say I'm talented at it. I just kind of watch videos on YouTube, and I follow the instructions... OK, yeah, my hidden talent: I'm good at following instructions!