Profoundly inspirational mechanic quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
Famous Mechanic Quotes
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Niels Bohr
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it, one comes to the fruits of mathematics. Leonardo da Vinci
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius
If your trust is in man, your joy will soon be buried in the cemetery. If you hope is in cars, your happiness will soon be found in the mechanic shop. Israelmore Ayivor
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics. Robert Kiyosaki
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller
My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic. Edward Ruscha
War has become an affair of machines and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. Alberto Moravia
It is a good idea to ‘shop around’ before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don’t be shy! After all, you’re paying for it. Dave Barry
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Walter Scott
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don’t have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn’t get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They’d be a garage mechanic or something. Mark Haddon
I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive. Thomas Nelson Page
Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road. Amit Kalantri
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic. Alexander Hamilton
I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive. Thomas Nelson Page
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. Carrie Snow
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity. Charles Horton Cooley
The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine. Robert G. Ingersoll
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer form the great body of the people of the United States; they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. Andrew Jackson
Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam. Dennis Miller
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics. Richard P. Feynman
As you get older, things conk out. It’s a bit like a car. As long as it’s something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles. Len Goodman
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. Richard P. Feynman
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else. Joseph H. Greenberg
It is about your having genuine acceptance, even though you are a college professor, of your son’s decision to become an auto mechanic no ifs, ands, or buts. Josh Bartok
Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics. Erwin Schrodinger
Writing, Madam, is a mechanical part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. George Etherege
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it. Niels Bohr
When you are having a bad time, examine the badness, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn the mechanics. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn’t everything just follow quantum mechanics? Aaron D. O’Connell
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help you with the mechanics. Bill Bowerman
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it. Niels Bohr
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I’m more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.
Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment. Deepak Chopra
Did you hear about the automobile mechanic who bought a hospital and he’s making a fortune? If you bring in your wife for an operation, they give you a loaner. Robert Orben
Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed. Barbara Serabella
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now. I thought for a long- time I would become a go kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver. Fernando Alonso
Let’s face it, to you it may be your motor that’s knocking. To a mechanic, it’s an opportunity. Robert Orben
Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself. Marc-Andre Hamelin
These fellas have so much authority; so much poise; so much dignity it makes you almost proud to have their fingerprints on your seat covers! Robert Orben
I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton’s theory of mechanics. Michio Kaku
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it, one comes to the fruits of mathematics. Leonardo da Vinci
If I had to label myself now, I’d call myself a Taoist Christian agnostic quantum mechanic. Moby
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet may have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill
Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view. William Shakespeare
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Walter Scott
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. Leonardo da Vinci
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics. Robert Kiyosaki
I haven’t always thrown hard, but eventually my velocity caught up with my mechanics. Tim Lincecum
With my own home, I feel like I’m the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home. Jonathan Scott
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics. Victor Frederick Weisskopf
You miss it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital. Israelmore Ayivor
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it’s possible to learn how things are done, the mechanics of writing, so to speak and which genres and authors excel in various areas. Nicholas Sparks
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Everytime he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else. Joseph H. Greene
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don’t compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped. Douglas Rushkoff
Mechanic slaves with greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. William Shakespeare
The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing. Charles Webster Hawthorne
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius
At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don’t service that car well, the customer won’t return. Roger Staubach
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. Carrie Snow
The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical physics, and some of it is completely Hollywood. When a science fiction movie is based on plausible science, it’s really good. Julie Payette
Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment. Deepak Chopra
Bell’s theorem proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication. Gary Zukav
Schrodinger’s wave mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge and a very good dodge too. Arthur Eddington
Writing, madam, is a mechanical part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. George Etherege
I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally. Barry Zito
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock. Alan Lightman
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition. Baz Luhrmann
What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty first century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines? Matthew Crawford
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense. Brian Greene
In eighteenth century Britain engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skillful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay. John Desmond Bernal
Don’t be pressured into paying before you are satisfied and remember that a second opinion is always a good idea before any repair work begins, he concludes.
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something. Lawrence M. Krauss
In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond. Constantin Stanislavski
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey. William Blackstone
A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty. Marie Curie
In general, I don’t like game mechanics, I mean it’s the idea that you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it’s an ideas I don’t really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point, fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. David Cage
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. Edward Bernays
In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time. Richard K. Morgan
No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself. Socrates
I’ve always regretted the fact that I’ve never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music. Stan Getz
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. Wilder Penfield
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough don’t get me started without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn’t enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics? Tom Lehrer
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs. U.G. Krishnamurti
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. Minoru Yamasaki
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Niels Bohr
Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world. They’re going to figure out all sorts of things to do. Jeffrey Goldberg
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control. Joseph Pilates
While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that. Murray Gell Mann
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. Carrie Snow
There’s a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut. Analeigh Tipton
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. Carrie P. Snow
My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic. Edward Ruscha
Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. Albert Bandura
All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations. Ernst Mach
We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial forefinger that can feel as well as beckon. John Napier
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power. Naomi Klein
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits. Albert Einstein
Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature. Fred Picker
But, I don’t think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can’t create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that’s written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. Buddy Rich
I’ll do something, get into some kind of work where talking doesn’t count. Maybe I’ll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don’t know. I guess I don’t care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That’s all I’ve got in mind. Sherwood Anderson
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. Remy De Gourmont
The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches. Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. Albert Einstein
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization. Max Weber
The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics. Al Seckel
Rock and roll music the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. Salman Rushdie
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. Stephen Bayley
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. Herbert Spencer
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanical arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. Samuel George Morton
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. David R. Brower
The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein’s bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they’d sewn on their sister’s sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk. John Dos Passos
