Following Instructions Quotes

• It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

  William Shakespeare

  Advice, Palaces, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  George C. Marshall

  Serious, Given, Deficiency

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• Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Overrated, Relatable, Instruction

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• Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

  Neil Gaiman

  Names, Remember, Found

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

  Timothy Leary

  Want, Administration, Republican

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans" by Martin Higgins, (p. 130), 2006.

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• It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Giving, Enemy

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

  Donald Knuth

  Funny Inspirational, Reading, Mind

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1984). “The texbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Real, School

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• We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Needs, Taught

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Motivational, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's good to be young and full of dreams. Dreams of one day doing something 'insanely great.' Dreams of love, beauty, achievement, and contribution. But understand they have a life of their own, and they're not very good at following instructions. Love them, revere them, nurture them, respect them, but don't ever become a slave to them. Otherwise you'll kill them off prematurely, before they get the chance to come true.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dream, Love Is, Achievement

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

  James Dean

  Order, Play, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, People, Today

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