Raw Materials Quotes

• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Believe, Despair

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

  John Berger

  Inspirational, Photography, Light

  John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Immune System, Protective, Materials

  Dr. Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Happiness, Creativity, Entrepreneur

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

  Rene Redzepi

  Letting Go, Taste, Soil

  Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2010.

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

  B. C. Forbes

  Ideas, Machines, Accomplish

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• The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

  Branch Rickey

  Race, Games, Black

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

  Deepak Chopra

  Running, Imagination, India

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• Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Heaven, Cost

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.10

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Color, Directors, Hue

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• We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Slave Labor, Land, Workplace

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• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

  Barbara Amiel

  Europe, Energy, Nuclear

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• I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

  Chaim Potok

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Paper, Film

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• Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

  Timothy Keller

  Sake, Creation, Developing

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• An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill

  Theodore Levitt

  Skills, Patents, Needs

  Theodore Levitt (2008). “Marketing Myopia”, p.71, Harvard Business Press

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• The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Social, Institutions, Recalcitrant

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• The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

  Ken Kesey

  Airplane, Reality, Wind

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.160, Penguin

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• You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Want, Knows, What You Want

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

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• He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

  Charles Edison

  Dollars, Plowing, Action

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