#instruct

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ↗

— George Stigler

#citizens #discuss #economist #fellow #fellow citizens

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time. ↗

— Ken Follett

#instructive #love

Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at the cartoon men and women who seem weirdly delighted to be bailing out of a series of cartoon planes. Beside her, Oliver stifles a laugh, and she glances up again. "What?" "I've just never seen anyone actually read one of those things before." "Well," she says, "then you're very lucky to be sitting next to me. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#safety-instructions #love

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#down #ended #everything #film #footage

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here. ↗

— Phil Rizzuto

#going #got #here #instructor #latin

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#i #instruction #soon #up

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. ↗

— Stephen King

#instruction-book #memoir #on-writing #writing-craft

I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily, which may go along with my not having much of an attention span. But extremely clever chi-chi writing, or just plain tomfoolery writing, puts me to sleep. Writers don't need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block. At the risk of appearing foolish, a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing- a sunset or an old shoe- in absolute and simple amazement. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#writers-block

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#book #depends #experience #feeds #great