Mechanism Quotes

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.