Raw Materials Quotes - Page 3

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests, or even raw materials that we produce on our land, or even land itself. We see it in terms of what we can exploit rather than the medium in which all of these activities have to take place.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that.