98 Mechanical Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. Nikola Tesla

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Henry David Thoreau

Expectation Aid Ourselves Must Dawn Learn Infinite Mechanical Awake Keep

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. Helena Blavatsky

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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. John Muir

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As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer. Bill Nye

You Engineer Know Am May Mechanical

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

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

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

Democracy Change Heart Adjusted Abolition Spirit Forms Requires Mechanical Thing

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. Mary Garden

I have a fondness for technology. It's great to spend hours puttering around with mechanical things gotten from junkyards and visualizing what their use might be. Especially if you come across a gadget or tool and you don't know what it is and you try to figure it out. I'm fascinated by processes, whatever they might be. Roger Zelazny

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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. Seth Godin

Art Minute Paint Mechanical Map Activity Numbers

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff. Adam Carolla

Women Better Guys Emotional Stuff Well Women Are Mechanical

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think. Alan Alda

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It's a bloody shame that all the video stores have gone, I'll tell you. Everything's so mechanical now. It's all so if-you-liked-this-then-you'll-like-this. There's no picking something out, or finding some brilliant person to open up new worlds for you. Alexandra Cassavetes

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. Andrew Vachss

Building Putting Device Like Bowling Ball Lace Mechanical Appearance

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction. Andy Warhol

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I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects. Arthur Ganson

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I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British. Arthur Penn

I just write mechanical things. Barry Zito

Write Just Mechanical Things

If you're free of mechanical thoughts and free of knowing that your body and bat are going to be in the right position at the right time, you can freely focus on the ball. It's a great feeling. Ben Zobrist

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on. Bill Nye

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