#materials

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

#attention #back #before #bring #child

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#expect #expense #i #improve #income

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ↗

— John Locke

#knowledge #makes #materials #mind #only

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

#available #cheap #colonies #dumping #easily

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#etc #goods #initiated #materials #other

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. ↗

— Hart Crane

#assured #been #deal #difficult #energy

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#materials #natural #productions #seas #their

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #compulsions #conscious #crowd #dynamic

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#always #am #art #artist #clearly

Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy. ↗

— Isaac Yeffet

#his #i #i believe #identify #invading