Quotes About Production

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

The Italian-owned Benetton label, for example, manufactures its entire clothing line in white. Once the clothes are delivered to distribution centers, Benneton's analysts assess what color or length is in vogue, at which point workers dye and cut the company's shirts, jackets, pants and infant apparel to replicate the style and color preferences popular at the time.

la presión demográfica no es un factor estático, sino un proceso de deterioro progresivo de la balanza entre el esfuerzo humano en la producción de alimentos y la satisfacción de necesidades, por una parte, y el resultado de tal esfuerzo, por otra.

and proletarii (those without property – whose contribution to the city was the production of offspring, proles).

By the mid second century BCE, the profits of warfare had made the Roman people by far the richest of any in their known world. Thousands upon thousands of captives became the slave labour that worked the Roman fields, mines and mills, that exploited resources on a much more intensive scale than ever before and fuelled Roman production and Roman economic growth.

It was, Polybius argued, such balances across the political system that produced the internal stability on which Roman external success was built.

Rover producing clumping of dust (circled) as would occur in atmosphere.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

John Myers wrote, "It is Imagination, man's power to imagine, that makes living in society, any society, possible. It think what Paul Goodman says about doing away with 'intolerable biological deprivation and spiritual impoverishment' through what he calls 'creative cooperative production' is the right and humane solution to our social woes.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

15 à 20 % des émissions mondiales de méthane sont liées à l'élevage des animaux. Depuis deux siècles, la concentration de méthane dans l'atmosphère a plus que doublé. Les ruminants – bÅ"ufs, vaches, buffles, moutons, chèvres et chameaux Ã¢â'¬â€œ constituent l'une des sources les plus importantes de production de méthane (37 % des émissions liées à l'homme).

The idea of tradition is this double movement: being other in order to be the same, forgetting in order to conserve, producing in order to receive, looking ahead in order to receive the entire force of the past.

The Wesen is sense of radiation, connected to materials, ingraspable outside of the fact or outside of existence. It is the way in which a whole is produced and reproduced, inseparable from this production. (verbal) Wesen

We must understand life as the opening of a field of action. The animal is produced by the production of a milieu, that is, by the appearing in the physical world of a field radically different from the physical world with its specific temporality and spatiality,

The invisible is a hollow in the visible, a fold in passivity, not pure production.

Countries that quit producing real products, spend more than they produce, lag in education, burden their middle class with higher taxes, and continue to import billions from other countries, bail out failed businesses and reward bad behavior instead of investing in good businesses, will eventually lose their leadership and wealth

Oil prices will keep breaking new records until other countries move to nuclear and alternative energy sources or we discover massive new reserves and increase production dramatically over the next few years.

A high school play was a time of high emotion and meaning; if you were in a play, you felt as if the play mattered. The success or failure of any production seemed like a real reflection on you personally.

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

That's the wonderful thing about the theater. Unlike in the movies where once a movie is finished and released you can't change it, in the theater a show is a living thing. When you realize something is wrong you can actually fix it and mount a new production.

a thousand county seats of 7,000 each are a thousand times more important to this Republic than one city of 7,000,000. Our unemployment and our unrest are the result of the concentration of wealth, the concentration of population in industrial centers, mass production, and a lot of other so-called modern improvements. "We are building a tower of Babel.

The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it's the cash that has him.

The best way to reduce any environmental impact is not to recycle more, but to produce and dispose of less" The

what most people see in their garbage cans is just the tip of the material iceberg; the product itself contains on average only 5% of the raw materials involved in the process of making and delivering it.