#mechanical

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#amplifier #been #coming #feeling #hear

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#best #best way #delight #drop #exciting

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

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#afraid #always #been #beginning #form

You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#because #championships #commodity #day #entire

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#die #life #live #mechanically #repetition

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#does #find #machine #mechanical #million

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#damage #encounter #may #mechanical #other