Makers Quotes - Page 7

• Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

  Duncan Green

  Russia, Decision, Acting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Technology, Decision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

  Mark Twain

  Country, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain's "New England Weather" speech, www.pbs.org. 1876.

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• I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

  Curtis Hanson

  Lovers, Approach

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every man is the maker of his own fortune

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Fortune, Every Man

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• To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Stupid, Men, Self

  Alfred Korzybski (1974). “Manhood of humanity”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• The Jemaine [Clement] and Taika works is a very long and slow machine - we put an idea in one end, and it takes about six years to come out the other end. And sometimes it doesn't even come out. And sometimes it comes out as a different idea. So we've out the idea of We're Wolves into the machine, and it's now slowly going through the sausage maker.

  Taika Waititi

  Ideas, Years, Long

  Source: www.ign.com

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• An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

  Morris Graves

  Men, Artist, Design

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• I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

  William Cobbett

  Drinking, Beer, Views

  "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

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• Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

  John Millington Synge

  Law, Pirate, World

  1907 The Playboy of the Western World, act 2.

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• The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources - labor, capital and human ingenuity - in a manner that can't be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Decision, Brilliant, Determined

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• In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Eye, Past

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.

  William the Silent

  Hurt, Men, Wife

  "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 176, 1897.

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• The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Video, Youtube

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• I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world. From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!

  Tecumseh

  Faith, Warrior, Destiny

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• Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Art, Creativity, Simple

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination”, p.16, Vintage

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• There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, War, Disruptive

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “They Call Us Dead Men: Reflections on Life and Conscience”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

  Erica Jong

  Soul, Remember, Given

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Aug 06, 2012

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• The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

  James Hervey

  Sky, Heaven, Deities

  James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284

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• writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

  Susan Sontag

  Literature, Myth, Offers

  Susan Sontag's Speech upon being awarded the "Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels" (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, www.tomdispatch.com. October 12, 2003.

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• It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

  Bias of Priene

  Law, Crime, Law Breakers

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• Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Unique, Reality

  Paul Caponigro (1972). “Paul Caponigro”

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• It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

  Ted Cruz

  Justice, Judging, Roles

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

  Hosea Ballou

  Judging, Soul, Quality

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• The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Ideas, Judging

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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