#mechanic

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions. ↗

— King Hussein I

#address #also #create #despair #desperately

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#am #holds #human #i #i am

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#apply #athletic #based #biomechanics #changes

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#again #because #being #go #like

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#beyond #changed #else #i #lens

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#difficult #effort #find #instincts #many

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#communication #determined #form #hampered #inevitable

I overcame size with mechanics. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#mechanics #overcame #size

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#computer #divine #finger #god #land

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#education #end #factory #fidelity #going