Top 100 Raw Material Quotes
#1. It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.
David DuChemin
#2. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#3. The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
Branch Rickey
#4. We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Deepak Chopra
#5. Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
Ben Okri
#6. The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
Hjalmar Schacht
#7. Restricting cholesterol can also starve the adrenals of the raw material it needs to make its hormones.
Eric Berg
#8. Combining storytelling, humanity, and laughter will give you a huge advantage in your public speaking and the odds are good that you already have all the raw material you need.
David Nihill
#9. Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
Maxim Gorky
#10. But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.
Dani Shapiro
#11. 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 God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
C.S. Lewis
#12. Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.
Bryant McGill
#13. Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
Christopher Hitchens
#14. Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.
Petra Kelly
#15. Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
P.D. James
#16. Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Aldo Leopold
#17. 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 have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.
Chaim Potok
#18. Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.
Michael Klare
#19. I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.
Sybille Bedford
#20. 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 to the work of a stone cutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.
Harriet Doerr
#21. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs
#22. Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. 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 generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#24. EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
Ambrose Bierce
#25. 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 can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
Marcus Aurelius
#26. 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, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
#27. This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
Michael Cunningham
#28. Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
Arnold Bennett
#29. My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.
Philip Schultz
#30. Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
Lawrence Durrell
#31. Imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...
... if you demand on one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
Marianne Moore
#32. The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.
Fernand Leger
#33. That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration.
Jonathan Dee
#34. A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.
George Eliot
#35. The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
Baba Kalyani
#36. Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
Thomas Carlyle
#37. Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
Peter F. Hamilton
#38. Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.
Rebecca Solnit
#40. Joy was not the raw material of humor ... The dark source was sorrow.
Sid Fleischman
#41. 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 and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
Willem Dafoe
#42. Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.
Roger Scruton
#43. 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 it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.
Michael Chabon
#44. 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, and use it.
Twyla Tharp
#45. School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#46. Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.
Ron Paul
#47. Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
Timothy Keller
#48. Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
Benjamin Graham
#49. A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
Eric Hoffer
#50. The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone
#52. Whoever John Stoner is, he is no magician. He could not have made you into a hero if you had not already possessed the raw material. -Concordia Glade to Ambrose Wills.
Amanda Quick
#53. Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
Fernand Leger
#54. With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.
Denis Waitley
#55. A memoir is a work of sustained narrative prose controlled by an idea of the self under obligation to lift from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform the event, deliver wisdom.
David Shields
#56. And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.
David James Duncan
#57. Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!
Charles Spurgeon
#58. Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.
Donella Meadows
#59. I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.
Imre Kertesz
#60. I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds ...
Uwem Akpan
#62. Carving is a source of joy to the artist ... To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.
Aristide Maillol
#63. How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
Lawrence Durrell
#64. The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
Jonathan Schell
#65. God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
Matt Chandler
#67. Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.
Gloria Ng
#68. Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.
Ted Shawn
#69. 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 is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
William Ernest Henley
#70. Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
Frank Herbert
#71. 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 are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.
Gerry McGovern
#72. Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
Eric Hobsbawm
#73. The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not.
Erich Fromm
#74. The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
Karl Marx
#75. In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
Miriam Toews
#76. Hutton's world consisted of his rocks and his friends. The rocks provided the raw material he needed to formulate his theories; the friends provided the guidance he needed to articulate those theories.
Eric Weiner
#77. Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#78. All men and all women are connected by an energy which many people call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.
Paulo Coelho
#79. An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill
Theodore Levitt
#80. Start from Raw ... As even Finished Goods ... 'the Perfect' are incomplete and impossible without Raw Material.
Mayank Sharma
#81. 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 yourself.
Warren G. Bennis
#82. People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.
Wolf Kahn
#83. Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.
Joyce Rachelle
#84. He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.
Charles Edison
#85. 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, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
Arnold Bennett
#86. The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen
#88. The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end,
Charles Wheelan
#89. Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic.
Pat Conroy
#90. The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
C.S. Lewis
#91. Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.
Brian Tracy
#92. Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.
Albert Einstein
#93. 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 raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
#94. The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
Aasif Mandvi
#95. Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
Martha Beck
#96. There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#97. Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material ... I take one form and transform it into other forms.
Theaster Gates
#98. 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 the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
Amy Waldman
#99. Failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success. Invite it in. Learn from it. And don't let it leave until you pick its pocket. That's a system.
Anonymous
#100. Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
Terence McKenna
