#instructions

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#contribute #decisions #familiar #good #good work

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#instructions #questions #search #theater #you

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#ambition #fervent #few #greatest #instructions

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 spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#anything #computer #fair #follow #hack

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#instructions #like #many #poems #read

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#christian #given #god #heart #i

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it. ↗

— Albert Speer

#cases #detailed #dropped #feign #given

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. ↗

— Xun Zi

#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided