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Quotes About Production

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
~ Charlton Heston
[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.
~ Don Herold
The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.
~ Jack White
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.
~ John Sayles
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
~ Orson Welles
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
~ Nick Harkaway
To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
~ Questlove
The third reason is global competitiveness. As a latecomer to auto production, China would have a hard time catching up and becoming a major competitor in the global market for conventional cars. But the electric car is a new game, and there are no big established EV players. Rapid growth of the national EV industry would deliver not only jobs domestically but also the platform to become a formidable exporter and a major force in the global auto industry.
~ Daniel Yergin
While it is the most common element, hydrogen does not naturally exist by itself, except in rare instances. It is derived by breaking up molecules. Today most hydrogen is produced from natural gas and coal.
~ Daniel Yergin
Also targeted was shale oil and Russia's immense nonconventional resources, including the huge Bazhenov formation, under the West Siberian basin. Whatever the potential, for a long time there was no technology with which to successfully produce from that complex geology.
~ Daniel Yergin
Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the "invisible hand" of the market. When the plan was formulated in tons of steel sheet, the sheet was made too heavy. When it was formulated in terms of area of steel sheet, the sheet was made too thin. When the plan for chandeliers was made in tons, they were so heavy, they could hardly hang from ceilings.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Both feared that the mechanization of stocking production would be politically destabilizing. It would throw people out of work, create unemployment and political instability, and threaten royal power. The stocking frame was an innovation that promised huge productivity increases, but it also promised creative destruction. T
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
These monopolies, and many more, gave individuals or groups the sole right to control the production of many goods. They impeded the type of allocation of talent, which is so crucial to economic prosperity. Both
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
In fact, it is known that a major technological innovation, the introduction of the steel axe among the group of Australian Aboriginal peoples known as Yir Yoront, led not to more intense production but to more sleeping, because it allowed subsistence requirements to be met more easily, with little incentive to work for more.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing production. It was not caused by divergence in agricultural performance.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
cherries grown in Colombia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, Hawaii, Jamaica and Ethiopia.
~ Dave Eggers
Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?
~ Unknown
If you really look at something, you can almost always tell what type of wage structure the person who made it was on.
~ David Foster Wallace
We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie...Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it.
~ David Foster Wallace
But it is not I the spy who have crept inside television's boundaries. It is vice versa. Television, even the mundane little businesses of its production, has become my—our—own interior. And we seem a jaded, weary, but willing and above all knowledgeable Audience. And this knowledgeability utterly transforms the possibilities and hazards of "creativity" in television.
~ David Foster Wallace
Homo Duplex. B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Narrator P.A. Heaven; Super-8 mm.; 70 minutes; black and white; sound. Parody of Woititz and Shulgin's 'post structural antidocumentaries,' interviews with fourteen Americans who are named John Wayne but are not the legendary 20th-century film actor John Wayne. MAGNETIC VIDEO (LIMITED RELEASE)
~ David Foster Wallace