Raw Material Quotes

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The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother… — Hildegard of Bingen
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.… — Thomas Sowell
When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
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… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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… — Carl Jung
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. — Viggo Mortensen
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,… — Jose Saramago
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But… — C.S. Lewis
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… — Jorge Luis Borges
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,… — Twyla Tharp
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. — Michael Cunningham
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object… — Simone de Beauvoir
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about lifeâ€”they have never felt its breath, its heartbeatâ€”however much they have seen… — Boris Pasternak
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used… — David Byrne
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness… — Marianne Moore
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. — Lawrence Durrell
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and… — Henry David Thoreau
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact itâ€™s essential to slow down and read every… — Francine Prose

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