#rod

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#desire #fact #in fact #product #said

Great countries are those that produce great people. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#great #great people #people #produce #those

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#feel #getting #gone #got #happened

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#down #environment #go #gonna #great

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. ↗

— John Thune

#dakota #dependence #energy #energy security #ethanol

That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#approach #attention #externals #helped #improvements

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#familiar #faster #fork #higher #just

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#amount #conventional #equal #factory #like

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#anything #bring #efficient #efficient way #management

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom. ↗

— George Duke

#freedom #i #my own #own #pay