Industry Quotes

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

~ Sara Sheridan

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

~ Sara Sheridan

I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.

~ Jack Gilbert

Each planet has a story to tell.With Mars it was nuclear aniallation.With Venus it was industrial madness.With Earth? I guess that greed will be the answer.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Of the scaly tribe I may mention those suckers belonging to the body loaferish, that ever rise to the surface of respectability, but are always groveling in the mud of corruption, whose sole study appears to be how much they can get without the least physical exertion; and who would rather ride to hell in a hand-cart than walk to heaven supported by the staff of industry.

~ Elbridge Gerry Paige

In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.

~ Eric Robert Morse

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

~ Michael Pollan

How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much recourse to naval power?Stalin and Hitler had arrived at the same basic answer to this fundamental question. The state must be large in territory and self-sufficient in economics, with a balance between industry and agriculture that supported a hardily conformist and ideologically motivated citizenry capable of fulfilling historical prophecies - either Stalinist internal industrialization or Nazi colonial agrarianism. Both Hitler and Stalin aimed at imperial autarky, within a large land empire well supplies in food, raw materials, and mineral resources. Both understood the flash appeal of modern materials: Stalin had named himself after steel, and Hitler paid special attention to is production. Yet both Stalin and Hitler understood agriculture as a key element in the completion of their revolutions. Both believed that their systems would prove their superiority to decadent capitalism, and guarantee independence from the rest of the world, by the production of food.p. 158

~ Timothy Snyder

And hoops, like rings aflame set to jump through for a world fit for someone elseThe cold harsh feel of steel on skin, the unloved touch of an industry used to deprave all mankind of its creativity and cast us out as a solider of fortune. Working to build an empire of dirt until the grave of another unknown warrior lays dead and buried amongst the masses of a billion unknowns before him.

~ Morris R. Gates

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

~ Kodak Eastman

You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an acceptable rate.

~ William Mcdonough

You should have long since gotten rid of military-industrial complexes.

~ Arkady Strugatsky

So this is the boom, eh?” I said. “Not exactly Scott Fitzgerald, is it?” “I’ll tell you what it’s like,” he said glumly. “It’s like being in Caligula’s Rome, and everyone around you’s having an orgy, and you’re the mug stuck looking after the horse.” He pulled heavily on his cigarette. “The whole thing’ll come crashing down,” he said bleakly, “and all anyone’ll have done is eaten a lot of expensive cheese.

~ Paul Murray

If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.

~ Lydia Maria Francis Child

Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people.

~ Sunday Adelaja

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor. Dr. Valentiner was keenly interested, considering my idea a potential base for a new school of modern art in America, as related to the social structure of American life as the art of the Middle Ages had been related to medieval society.

~ Diego Rivera

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

~ Pitbull

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

~ Michael Eisner

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

~ Geoffrey Canada

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

~ Kevin Plank

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

~ Steve Jurvetson

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

~ Cameron Sinclair

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

~ Anne Wojcicki

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

~ Marc Benioff

TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

~ Simon Sinek

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

~ Gale Anne Hurd