Quotes About Production

The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce. We want to produce directly and without meditation. As there is not the least trace of abstraction in this art, we will call it concrete art.

Celui qui est contre la guerre est par ce seul fait dans l'illégalité. L'état capitaliste considère la vie humaine comme la matière véritablement première de la production du capital. Il conserve cette matière tant qu'il est utile pour lui de la conserver. Il l'entretient car elle est une matière et elle a besoin d'entretien, et aussi pour la rendre plus malléable il accepte qu'elle vive.

It is production which opens a demand for products…. A product is no sooner created, than it, from that instant, affords a market for other products to the full extent of its own value.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Avec le Néolithique, les hommes ne sont plus seulement prédateurs, ils deviennent producteurs. Ce n'est plus la carrying capacity de l'environnement qui limite leur nombre, mais leur capacité à produire, capacité qui évolue rapidement. Agriculture et élevage entraînent une expansion démographique spectaculaire.

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

Because in order to deliver their benefits, their financial value, they need to work in conjunction with other material assets such as production facilities. There are no brands without products or services to carry them.

it turns the shower scene was a lot harder to film than i expected

Because sports and mythology often intertwine, the Game 6 narrative has often been one that evokes the best of a cheesy feel-good Hollywood production. Not only did Johnson take the jump ball, he won it, dribbled down the court, did a 360-degree midair flip and dunked over Julius Erving—blindfolded while eating a slice of cheesecake. Not quite.

What you have learned is that the capacity of the plant is equal to the capacity of its bottlenecks," says Jonah.

A balanced plant is essentially what every manufacturing manager in the whole western world has struggled to achieve. It's a plant where the capacity of each and every resource is balanced exactly with demand from the market.

Okay, so why was the plant built in the first place? It was built to produce products. Why can't that be the goal? Jonah said it wasn't. But I don't see why it isn't the goal. We're a manufacturing company. That means we have to manufacture something, doesn't it? Isn't that the whole point, to produce products? Why else are we here?

The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

If you do say yes to an idea, now it's showtime.

I never could act, Edna. And I detest Hamlet. Have you ever seen a production of Hamlet that didn't make you want to go home and put your head in the oven? I haven't. Oh, I thought our Hamlet was quite nice, said Edna. Because it was abridged, said Peg. Which is the only thing Shakespear should ever be.

Go back far enough and you will find people who were not consumers, people who were not sitting around passively waiting for stuff to happen to them. You will find people who spent their lives making things. This is where you come from. This is where we all come from. Human beings have been creative beings for a really long time—long enough and consistently enough that it appears to be a totally natural impulse.

Money is not the wealth of a nation, but production is wealth; so ordered production is the main object for humanity. But to have the maximum of production, it is necessary to have production put on a sound basis. No mere preaching of brotherly love, or class hatred, will produce one single brick for the building of the future temple of human victory—the temple of human civilization. Ordered production demands analysis of basic facts.

This era is essentially an industrial era. To produce we have to have: (1) raw material or soil; (2) instruments for production—tools and machines; and (3) the application of power.

We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.