#mechanic

But hitting is so crazy. You feel great today and get three hits. And the next day you show up and it's, 'What happened to my mechanics? Where's my swing?' Sometimes I even Google it and the search comes up with no results. ↗

— Marco Scutaro

#crazy #day #even #feel #get

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#explosions #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez #mechanics

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#balk #book #certainly #children #easier

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. ↗

— Karel Capek

#capacity #dear #glory #intellectual #mechanically

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#back #come #ever #felt #going

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#digest #everything #form #happen #i

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ↗

— Confucius

#diligence #expectations #first #his #life

I also think that I had great mechanics. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#great #had #i #mechanics #think