129 Mechanism Quotes for You to Enjoy

Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction. Greg Gutfeld

Communication Destruction Language Before Own Club Changed Civilization Prevents Simply Then Created Used Mechanism

Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life. Indya Moore

Life You Survival Church Enough Incredible Kicks Circumstances About Something Both Pushed Missing Because Demonstrate Get Essential Certain Your Hard Mechanism Grow Saturday Things Need Pose

Human beings are addicted to power in an interesting way, and this is what makes a lot of people feel powerful: belittling people that are commonly belittled. I think if we understood that this was going on, that this was the mechanism at work within us, we wouldn't be that way. Indya Moore

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change. James Corden

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress. Jerome Powell

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity. Jerry A. Webman

Out Would Would-Be Exactly Someone Rates Economic Economic Activity Lay Gets Interest Interest Rates Us Lower Helpful Mechanism Activity Actual

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. John Bolton

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top. John Burroughs

Me Nothing Tree Else Extreme Top Fine About Delicacy Remarkable Bottom Leaves Cells Which Mechanism Lives Grows

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. John Major

Regret Entering About Mechanism Shred

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle. John Ridley

Me Try Thought Conspiracy Down Cocktail Else Once Way Thought Process Shadows Hustle Count Vegas Never Schooled Make Demons Waitress Get Anybody Process Little Hard Mechanism Belittle Coping

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me. Johnny Vegas

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine. Jonathan Nolan

Wisdom Future Time Home You Travel Book Matter Old Language Books Machine Thousand Hurl Thousand Years Find Idea Contains Ideas Look Sort How Least Years Time Travel Going Anyone Modest Created Mechanism Humans

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved. Jordan Peterson

Buy You Constitution Our Those Evolved Darwinian Insofar Both Physiological Physiology Unsuccessful Obviously Account Accounts Behaviors Processes Us Successful Product Theory Mechanism

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. Julian Assange

Action Wikileaks Leading Reform Maximize Just Information Mechanism Amount Flow

There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export. K. V. Thomas

Import Policy How Decide Place Should Export Mechanism

When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism. Katrina Kaif

Smile Attitude Myself You Eyes People Tough Defense Defense Mechanism Airport Bad Find Bad Habit Only Habit Take Know Protect Because Off Yes Walking Expected Trying Mechanism Floor Actually Shyness

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism. Lawrence R. Klein

World Building Research States Investigate Attention Trade Doing Model Committee Order Turned Transmission Team International Mechanism United United States World Trade

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. Lewis Thomas

Death You Experience People Complicated Fear Amazing Seen Overwhelming Few Think About Exception Never Taken Like Undergo Known Because How Deaths Lot Quite Being Anyone Anything Apart Mean Painful Agony Mechanism

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an exit mechanism for troubled members, or it should embrace a closer political union: an effective governance structure that is capable of enforcing rules. Lou Jiwei

Better Political Strike Rules Members Must Embrace Structure Troubled Develop Countries Alternative Governance Exit Effective Closer Either Capable Enforcing Should Euro Union Mechanism Zone

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. Madeleine Albright

Time You Long Long Time Slightly System Tell Kind Some Open Studied Look Democratic Go Authoritarian Revolutions Different Mechanism

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable. Mark Walport

Definition Destroying Only Computer Supply Because Off Account Accountable Short Hold Anything Cannot Turning Held Electricity Mechanism Hardware Humans

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