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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas. -- Clement Greenberg
Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought. -- Brian Kernighan
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. -- Walter Benjamin
Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours -- William Langewiesche
My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals -- Marilyn Manson
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day. -- Lewis Mumford
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The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless. -- Umberto Eco
As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer. -- Bill Nye
Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff. -- Adam Carolla
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. -- Andrew Vachss
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. -- Daisaku Ikeda
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. -- John Stuart Mill
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. -- Christopher Morley
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. -- Henry David Thoreau
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. -- Seth Godin
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. -- Joseph Priestley
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. -- John Moody
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it. -- Kenny Chesney
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction. -- Andy Warhol
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. -- Shelby Foote
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. -- H. P. Blavatsky
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. -- Andre Norton
He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. -- Leslie Charteris
Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize. -- Ernie Els
I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on. -- Bill Nye
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this. -- Richard P. Feynman
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. -- Nikola Tesla
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain. -- Stacy Schiff
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it. -- Ursula Burns
I just write mechanical things. -- Barry Zito
No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening. -- Troy Aikman
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. -- Bruce Lee
A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage. -- James J. Gibson
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The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data. -- Peter Drucker
If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control. -- Carl Olson
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. -- Conrad Wolfram
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. -- Robert A. Heinlein
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. -- Garrett Hardin
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. -- Benjamin Franklin
I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands. -- Evan Glodell
Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one. -- Tom Vanderbilt
Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind. -- Oscar Wilde
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive. -- Craig MacDonald
I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical. -- M. Leighton
The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. -- L. P. Jacks
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. -- Josef Albers
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. -- Joel Salatin
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life. -- Dennis Washington
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. -- Ernest Hemingway
Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger. -- Steven Moffat
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. -- Anthony Burgess
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. -- John Maeda
Form, which should be the clean-cut expression of mechanical excellence, has become sensuous and organic. -- Raymond Loewy
What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. -- Jeanette
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. -- F. R. Leavis
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present. -- Paul Schrader
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. -- Colin Angle
Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative. -- Fred Picker
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. -- Jerzy Kosinski
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. -- Allen Ginsberg
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. -- William Tenn
Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems. -- Emily Barton
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development. -- Alexey Suetin
As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one. -- Charlie Kimball
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm. -- August Bournonville
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. -- George Bernard Shaw
We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. -- Marilyn Ferguson
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. -- Friedrich Schiller
Kissing's a very organic and mechanical process. It's like a slap. You slap your co-star once and it's done. -- Alia Bhatt
The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong. -- Konrad Lorenz
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery. -- Nicholas G. Carr
Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment. -- Amit Ray
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. -- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. -- Max Weber
Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars. -- Joe Biden
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano. -- Tommy Bolin
It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible. -- John Leeson
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still -- D. H. Lawrence
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. -- Catherine Deneuve
If your objective is to tell time, you will not buy a mechanical watch. You have the time on your phone. -- Ricardo Guadalupe
I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." -- Phyllis Diller
Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases. -- Robert E. Howard
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions. -- Fernand Leger
The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them. -- Lewis Mumford
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. -- Bobby Seale
A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. -- Idries Shah
Somewhere high overhead on the other side of the freighter, metal ground against metal making a sound like angry mechanical whales fucking." -- Damon Suede
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content. -- Carl Magnusson
Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization. -- Richard G. Wilkinson
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical. -- Grimes
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass. -- Bill Vaughan
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. -- Herbert Read
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. -- Wendell Berry
Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down! -- Garrison Wynn
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. -- William Hazlitt
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical. -- Carla Bruni
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms. -- Voltaire
Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word. -- Amit Ray
A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same. -- Michael Dolan
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living. -- Peter Abrahams
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. -- John Constable
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. -- Anthony de Mello
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage. -- Marjane Satrapi
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me. -- Barbara Kingsolver

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