Raw Material Quotes

97 quotes by 88 authors

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… — Warren G. Bennis
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to… — Steven Furtick
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it… — Harriet Doerr
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. — Francine Prose
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle,… — Arnold Bennett
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being… — Marcus Aurelius
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. — P.D. James
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages… — Gerry McGovern
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. — Branch Rickey
And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get… — Dara Horn
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others. — Timothy Keller
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever… — William Ernest Henley
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get… — Amy Waldman
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any… — Stephen Batchelor
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… — Chaim Potok
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well… — Willem Dafoe
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material… — G. H. Hardy
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach… — Michael Chabon
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old… — Wendell Berry

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