Top 659 Mechanical Quotes & Sayings

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.

In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.

No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

CrossFit really teaches the basics and fundamentals of proper mechanical movement.

For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion.

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires." "Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical.

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

Intimate scenes or a kiss is a very technical aspect of filmmaking. It is extremely mechanical.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

For the most part, someone who is in love with mechanical watches is not going to decide to wear a smartwatch over a mechanical watch.

I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

I love mechanical things, older cars especially.

I just write mechanical things.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.

The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.