#mechanical

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#been #began #beginning #civilization #class

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#adjusted #change #democracy #forms #heart

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#arranger #because #becomes #chart #create

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

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#heart #human #human heart #infinitely #mechanical

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

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#drum #i #like #mechanical #play

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#equipment #faster #imagine #like #mechanical

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control. ↗

— Carl Olson

#get #mechanical #must #rid #roach