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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A." »Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
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"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." »Leo Tolstoy
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens
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"I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself." »Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins
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"Reason should direct and appetite obey." »Cicero
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"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." »Bertha Calloway
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity." »Marcel Proust
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." »John Galsworthy
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity." »Plutarch
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"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." »John Wooden
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"The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it." »Jeanne-Marie Roland
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses." »William Arthur Ward
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses." »William Arthur Ward
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"Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind." »Finley Peter Dunne
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"A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain." »Author Unknown
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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." »Andr Gide
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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." »Vince Lombardi
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"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides." »Saint Thomas Aquinas
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"Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for." »Terry Lynn Taylor
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"Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest." »Gay
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." »David Friedman
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"Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort." »Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor
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"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves." »Ethel Perry Andrus
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"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing." »Marcel Proust
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"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy." »Camille Paglia
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