Top 369 Instructions Quotes & Sayings

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the possibility to give adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions and the resulting compliance or non-compliance of those who are supposed to follow these instructions.

We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.

Following instructions is overrated.

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.

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

I don't just issue instructions. I follow up to see if they have been obeyed.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored

Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

I always tell people, I can't teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can't teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga.

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna's arrangement the He never reveals Himself.

Some applauding Steve Harvey for the instructions he gave, others simply horrified by the instructions that one feels necessary to give in this the freest land in all the earth, in 2016, the United States of America.

Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that may not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.

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.

Show your instructions in actions as much as you can.

How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.

If you think or say, 'I always get jetlag when I travel,' your cells receive 'jetlag' as a command, and they must carry out your instructions. Think and feel that you have a weight problem, and your cells receive the order of a weight problem. They must follow your instructions and keep your body in an overweight condition.

Once I sign up for a film, I just go by the director's instructions.

It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds. ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.

I was never good at taking instructions.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

The script of a play is not a finished product: It's a set of instructions.

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

With each individual, everybody takes instructions in a different way.

We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

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.

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!

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

Mission control, We have a UFO pacing our position, request instructions!

People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

People hate to and will not read instructions.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.

I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.

Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.