#instruct

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#bit #does #dreams #instruct #me

Practice is the best of all instructors. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#instructors #practice

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault. ↗

— John B. Hood

#advance #after #against #assault #battle

Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at the cartoon men and women who seem weirdly delighted to be bailing out of a series of cartoon planes. Beside her, Oliver stifles a laugh, and she glances up again. "What?" "I've just never seen anyone actually read one of those things before." "Well," she says, "then you're very lucky to be sitting next to me. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#safety-instructions #love

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#conducted #connection #fort #given #i

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#curious #good #good book #instructive #language

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#behalf #conviction #country #dare #disregard

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

#actor #anyone #director #exactly #following

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill. ↗

— John Shirley

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