Automatic Quotes

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. View quote
Ayn Rand
Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. View quote
Alex Haley
The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid. View quote
Franklin Raines
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud. View quote
Romain Gary
Jobs: Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. View quote
Steve Jobs
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself. View quote
Cesare Pavese
When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite. View quote
David Lynch
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. View quote
John Fowles
The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having been naughty. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. (Temple Grandin)
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration. View quote
Philippe Sollers
In anarchy there is no automatic harmony. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly. View quote
Maurice Wilkes
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. View quote
Larry Wall
It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability, [...] This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop. View quote
Robert Floyd
If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic. View quote
Pierre Dukan
Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position. (Philip K. Dick)
The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time. View quote
Joshua Ferris
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. View quote
Ralph W. Sockman
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. View quote
G. Stanley Hall
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. View quote
G. Stanley Hall