Products Quotes

• Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Race, Habit

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.

  Neil Postman

  Simple, Ideas, Whales

  Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.113, Vintage

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• In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

  Milton Friedman

  Suggestions, Unemployment, Ends

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• If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

  Homaro Cantu

  Technology, Creating, Looks

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• People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.

  James Dillehay

  People, Marketing, Problem

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• I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

  Usher

  Children, Thinking, Nine

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Workers

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

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• Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Artist, Strive, Aesthetic

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Growing Up, Children, Lying

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• If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

  Jason Calacanis

  Hobbies, Ifs, Sells

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• Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

  George A. Sheehan

  Fun, Play, Process

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• American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.

  Liz W. Garcia

  Mean, Responsibility, Creating

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.

  Ravida Din

  People, Progress, Dollars

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm a product of my environment.

  Ariel Pink

  Environment

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature.

  Marion Nestle

  Simple, Cooking, Matter

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.

  Peter Singer

  Views, Needs, Damage

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

  Franklin Foer

  Thinking, Hands, Islam

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

  Aimee Mann

  Artist, Trying, Labels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument.

  Lawrence Kaplan

  War, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.

  Charles Landry

  Lying, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than the product.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Writing, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, Mean, Museums

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, West, Economics

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.23, Harper Collins

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