#grain

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting

Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#advantage #against #bouncing #conscious #country

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. ↗

— Joey Ramone

#against #am #being #going #grain

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#because #brethren #developing #developing world #die

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#historical #ingrained #memories #stone

I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#any #big #go #grain #had

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. ↗

— James Jeans

#closely #grains #inside #more #packed

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grain #her #into #man #puts

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation. ↗

— Saadi

#becomes #collected #consists #deal #drop

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#constantly #could #go #hair #heels