#mechanism

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#because #confused #coping #feel #food

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#comfortable #communication #communication skills #different #digital

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#behavior #best #certainly #ethics #gravitate

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#characterized #hayek #market #mechanisms #than

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#anytime #capitalism #communism #economics #extreme

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

#agony #amazing #anyone #anything #apart

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#body #bottom #congress #controlled #controversy

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. ↗

— Arthur Young

#intending #know #lack #machinery #machines