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A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. -- Carrie Snow
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. -- Confucius
I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive. -- Thomas Nelson Page
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. -- Walter Scott
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic. -- Alexander Hamilton
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). -- Robert Hooke
Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment. -- Deepak Chopra
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. -- Niels Bohr
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. -- Noam Chomsky
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. -- Plato
Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars. -- Ann McLane Kuster
Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time. -- Nolan Ryan
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. -- Lorraine Moller
There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic. -- Liz Vassey
Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations. -- Stephen Hawking
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food? -- Joel Salatin
What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food. -- Michael Pollan
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us. -- Deepak Chopra
Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality -- Brian Greene
I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane. -- Gordon Bethune
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver. -- Fernando Alonso
My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful. -- Brendon Burchard
I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things. -- Cory Monteith
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. -- Andrew Jackson
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant. -- Alain de Botton
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. -- Andrew Jackson
I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic. -- Larry the Cable Guy
If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. -- Marc Andreessen
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something. -- Mark Haddon
I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job. -- Eric Bana
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. -- Ben Affleck
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It's that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It's easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals. -- Lorraine Moller
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy. -- Mike Rowe
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it. -- Mike Birbiglia
Made poetry a mere mechanic art. -- William Cowper
The Creator is not a careless mechanic. -- Ina May Gaskin
A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer. -- Jack Spicer
A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. -- Garry Winogrand
I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job. -- Henry Ford
Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over. -- Margery Allingham
I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic. -- Mark Oliver Everett
Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed. -- Barbara Seranella
I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver -- Fernando Alonso
The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time. -- Seth Lloyd
If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic. -- Moby
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. -- Robert Henri
It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling. -- Svetlana Khorkina
In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp. -- Amelia Earhart
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does. -- Randa Haines
Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars. -- Ann McLane Kuster
People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes? -- Neil Simon
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. -- George Etherege
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. -- Charles Bukowski
Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. -- Dennis Miller
Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss. -- Timothy F. Cahill
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic. -- Eddie Vedder
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler. -- Fred Tomaselli
I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne -- C.E. Murphy
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else. -- Joseph H. Greenberg
But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse. -- Max Lucado
I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger. -- Michael Rosenbaum
You have no idea how to dance, do you?" Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. "I'm a mechanic. -- Marissa Meyer
I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit. -- Raymond Carver
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. -- Toby Young
Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific. -- Gene Simmons
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder. -- Antonio Sabato, Jr.
My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian. -- Richard J. Roberts
What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines? -- Matthew Crawford
If I was a mechanic and someone called me and said their car would not start, I would say, "Hey - maybe a killer is after you!" -- Mitch Hedberg
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet. -- Friedrich Schiller
Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both. -- Patricia Briggs
At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university. -- Philipp Meyer
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers. -- William Cowper
I'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency. -- Amber Heard
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough." -- Thomas Bidegain
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest. -- Muhammad Ali
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. -- Samuel George Morton
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works. -- John Steinbeck
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic. -- Andrew Jackson

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