Assembly Line Quotes - Page 2

• If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?

  Ted Nugent

  Mad, Body, Lines

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• Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, People, Lines

  Studs Terkel (2007). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, The New Press

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• People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you’re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.

  Mark Sutton

  Character, People, Ceilings

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• The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

  George Packer

  Age, Lines, Invisibility

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Dirty, Past

  Barack Obama's remarks at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony at the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 14, 2014.

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• Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

  Pope Francis

  Office, Everyday, Lines

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Lines, Corporations

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• My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

  Anita Baker

  Growing Up, Father, Life Is Short

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• SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission. You begin by working in that area of activity that is your own unique one, with your own life and activities. You begin in the corner of an office, or on the assembly line, or in the advertising agency, or in the kitchen. You begin where you are.

  Jane Roberts

  Change, Unique, Agency

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• There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

  Lester Thurow

  Teamwork, Successful, Moon

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• Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

  Mike Rogers

  Lines, Firsts, November

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• Most of today's film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Hair, Eyelashes, Age

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

  Merle Haggard

  Kids, Guitar, Two

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• There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Creativity, Simple, Engineering

  "Masterminds of Programming Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages". Book by Shane Warden, Federico Biancuzzi, March 2009.

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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• Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

  Michael De Luca

  Lines, Projects, Producers

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• A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

  John Medina

  Jobs, Bored, Lines

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much.

  Vir Das

  Struggle, Unique, People

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• Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Apples, Pace, Potters

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• Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

  Rollo May

  Lines, May, Poet

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.

  Wendell Berry

  Retirement, Ambition, Weekend

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.36, Counterpoint Press

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• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

  Chris Matthews

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

  Michael Jackson

  Ideas, Different, Lines

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from May 05, 2014

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• It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate' and talks with a probably fake Texas accent and so on, because then can come back with the big propaganda apparatus saying, 'See, those elite liberals who run the world and are sitting around drinking French wine and eating quiche don't understand us ordinary guys'; regular guys like the guy working on the assembly line and George Bush, who is going back to his ranch to cut brush.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Drinking, Wine

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• We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call [them] machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts.

  Bruce Alberts

  Moving, Cells, Machines

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