Equipment Quotes - Page 9

• The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

  Walther von Brauchitsch

  Tired, Army, Russia

  "Kaltenborn Edits the War News" Hans Kaltenborn, (p. 25), 1942.

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• After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  War, Cities, Cameras

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• What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Moving, Size, Unseen

  Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

  George Lansbury

  War, Army, Air

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• The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.

  Edward Anthony Spitzka

  Science, Men, Light

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• ...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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• In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

  Florence King

  Important, Bars, Mississippi

  Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.215, Macmillan

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• I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

  Greg Ginn

  Design, Building, Made

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• We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Perfect, Mind, Body

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.45, Penguin

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• I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.

  Jeremy Lin

  Dirty, Mean, Godly

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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• Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  War, Marine, Order

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• From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

  Bode Miller

  Racing, Gone, Skis

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• If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be.

  Sumner Slichter

  Money, Years, Would Be

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• Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Money, Cutting, Order

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• The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

  Confucius

  Military, Government, People

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.

  Ken Rockwell

  Creating, Worry, Effort

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• You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

  Ken Rockwell

  Creating, Worry, Needs

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• We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Agonizing, Endowment

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• Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

  Alan Parsons

  Engineering, Use, Audio

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• I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

  Peter Biskind

  Years, Lucky, Politician

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.178, Macmillan

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• We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

  Victoria Moran

  Children, Kids, Garden

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• Equipment makes my job easier, but it doesn't affect my style.

  Michael Seresin

  Jobs, Style, Easier

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• Stories are equipment for living.

  Kenneth Burke

  Stories

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• The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

  Joe McNally

  Attitude, Important, Bags

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• The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

  David Hurn

  Shoes, Important, Cameras

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