156 Materials Quotes for You to Enjoy

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Education Creative Discipline Judgment Our Guide Responsible Must Clarity Rational Through Lead Students Road True Over Opinion Materials Intellectual Irresponsible Order Us Therefore Creative Work Function Let Us Chance

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

Knowledge Mind Reading Thinking Ours Only Read Makes Materials

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Hans Hofmann

Nature Spiritual World Three First Creation Medium Laws Through Absolutely Factors Contact Materials His Dominated Artist Different Which Us Creates Who Works Expression Inner Second Third Inner World

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor. Hugh Masekela

People World Different Kinds Ways Kinds Only Fact Raw Raw Materials Over Massive Majority Always Materials Stood Depends Different Establishment Poor Poor People Exploited Exploiting Across Things Two

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. Mao Zedong

War Man Important Weapons Factor Counts Materials Decisive

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance. Richard Branson

First Our Everything Marketing Those Would Muster Only Could Ads Glance New Aloud Concept Message Read Understandable Passed Test Materials Reviewed Campaign Quickly Get Then Asked If I Could Across Grasp Company Presenting

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box. Adam Savage

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials. Carlos Slim

Life You Maturity Toy Another Materials Want Biggest Biggest Things Things

We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built. Haile Selassie

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. I. M. Pei

Technology Architecture Key Light Space Important Design Secondary Architectural More Materials Than Essence Essential Form Anything Element

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? Jeremy Rifkin

Plants Insects Animals Other Birds Digest Seed Contact Come Materials Happens Land Acres Producing Products Pharmaceutical Millions Vaccines

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

Life Needs History Imagination Fabric Indirect Crowd Compulsion Never Because Always Real Materials Influence Dynamic Social Interests Social Life Conscious

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. Tadao Ando

Man Experience Architecture Building Architectural Through Since Come Concepts Although Am Materials Been Methods Western Japanese Based Actual Designs

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau

Man Together Youth Moon Build Earth Temple Perchance Materials His Gets Middle-Aged Middle-Aged Man Length Them To The Moon Bridge Palace

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

There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all the volatile materials, leaving us with bits of rock and using that to make some incredible structures. Alastair Reynolds

It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way. Alex Steffen

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it. Annie Besant

Mother First Every Constantly Reconstruction Undergoing Fresh Built Passing Continually Materials Womb Up Decay Human Tiny Form Human Body Process Body Molecules Moment Away Streaming

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops. Antoine Predock

You Survival Together Protection Plant Wind Nurse Some Crops Direction Study Prime How Governed Materials Southwest Sustenance Little Communities

We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot. Arthur Blank

Today Home People Building Year Sold Runway Total Percent Does How How Much Materials Lot Left Than Improvement Did Ask Much Home Depot Less Billion Company Largest Awful Amount Awful Lot Last Last Year

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves. Arthur Ganson

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. Arthur Henderson

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. Atul Gawande

Health Care Building Like House Health Care Equipment Materials Providing Huge Huge Amount Task Expensive Experts Requires Coordination Amount

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