Mechanism Quotes

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

All I was was a mechanism.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.

As we become multi sensory, we move beyond the limitations of the five senses and we now are evolving to a different mechanism in the exploration of physical reality.

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to offer.

From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and on until they understand the mechanism that they're actually fighting against.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.

Simple mechanisms do not love.

Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.