Quotes About Making

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

The primary material conditions for the making of beauty have not changed. But the frame of attention, and the context of mattering—these have.

There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It feels like a really cool time to be making music now.

The prospective buyer's financial capacity to purchase. The prospective buyer's need for what is being offered for sale. The prospective buyer's motive in making the purchase.

The principle of intervention, like that of healers, is first do no harm (primum non nocere); even more, we will argue, those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions.

This is no different from the Bob Rubin risk-transfer trade, of delaying risks and making them look invisible.

History in the making, at least on the personal level, is almost exclusively pathetic. People suffer and die in ignorance and delusion.

Although now that I'm in middle management I'm supposed to call it refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation," or, if I'm being honest, "making it up as I go along.

I went to school at MIT with a whole bunch of engineers. And then I started work one day and asked myself, 'Why do all of these MIT Ph.D.s work for Harvard M.B.A.s?' Why should it be like that? I was one of those engineers who thought, 'Why are these people making those dumb decisions?' So it's fun to be the person making them.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

Shadrack began a struggle that was to last for twelve days, a struggle to order and focus experience. It had to do with making a place for fear as a way of controlling it.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.

The joy and the grief we encounter on our journey are not always the direct workings of God, which of course means that we too are partners in the making of our world.

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

If a conceptual distinction is to be made, the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language, it cannot be made conceptually.

Normally, I admire your kick-in-the-face style, Lieutenant. But try that with this, and the two of us will be making love in heaven tonight. Heaven wouldn't have either of us

In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been moulded in the making.

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

Typical tech-driven companies or hardware-driven companies always lay out the so-called roadmaps when it comes to making the new hardware. So, in other words, availability of certain technologies dictates when the company is intending to make the new hardware.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.