#instruction

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#contribute #decisions #familiar #good #good work

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#dispositions #efficacy #except #happy #instruction

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#instructions #questions #search #theater #you

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ↗

— Horace

#experience #instruction #life #name #parent

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#dearly #derive #great #instruction #makes

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#ambition #fervent #few #greatest #instructions

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#fall #instructions #just #kremlin #parliament

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#data #different #i #instructions #programs

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then give these works as elementary textbooks to their young pupils at the beginning of their schooling, to provide them with exempla and received wisdom, so that they will remember this teaching when they come of age ... They accuse [women] of many ... serious vice[s] and are very critical of them, finding no excuse for them whatsoever. This is the way clerks behave day and night, composing their verse now in French, now in Latin. And they base their opinions on goodness only knows which books, which are more mendacious than a drunk. Ovid, in a book he wrote called Cures for Love, says many evil things about women, and I think he was wrong to do this. He accuses them of gross immorality, of filthy, vile, and wicked behaviour. (I disagree with him that they have such vices and promise to champion them in the fight against anyone who would like to throw down the gauntlet ...) Thus, clerks have studied this book since their early childhood as their grammar primer and then teach it to others so that no man will undertake to love a woman. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #falsehood #gender

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe). ↗

— Jasper Rees

#music