“There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.” WantShowsCertainTvsInvolvedCostEconomicsEpisodesTv ShowsCheaper Author:Shawn Ryan
“It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.” ShowsCostDuesMassiveRegulationEntrepreneurial Author:Cameron Mackintosh
“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.” ThinkingShowsQualityRecordsCuttingEffectsPromiseCostWasteDoctorsRelationPatientMedicalSavingWellnessVagueImprovingImperativesSavingsOathLipstickPublic RelationsPreventionMedical Records Author:Ezekiel Emanuel
“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsDoeShowsActorsStarsFiveFourCostNormalEatingHundredDollarsDinnerRestaurantsExpensiveFiftyHotelRelativeTicketsSeventiesBroadwaySpectators Author:Ferran Adria
“I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.” YearsFirstsTwoShowsHouseFiveWeekMinutesTelevisionCostStuckLocalsEnjoyedMealsFive YearsGasTwo YearsViewersGroceries Author:Rachael Ray
“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.” PeopleIfsTryingEndsMomentsCharacterShowsHurtViolenceInvolvedCostGloryImpactMeant To BeEntertainingProtagonistsCathartic Author:Charlie Huston
“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!” KnowsWritingYearsLittlesDoeShowsLastsSidesWeekCostHusbandLettersBillsNotionFortyYellowLast YearTremblingYour SideVelvetGownsLaceGuineaScarvesRaggedBracelet Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!” WayWellsMayLittlesSaidShowsNationsEasyDifficultInterestResultsCostBottomCarrieNeglectWarningDecayNegligenceHigh Prices Author:George Matthew Adams
“Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.” IfsWorldShowsCostDearPolitenessMiscellaneous Author:William Allingham
“You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.” ShowsPoliticalForcePayDisciplineCostCatProductionsFatsShow MeFree MarketSubsidiesClout Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“When I do stand-up around the country, I often see people walk out. This is a show that they've purposely gone to, where my name is on the ticket, and it cost them $75 or something. So, you think, Wow, that means that they either didn't know very much about me when they bought their tickets or they're that offended by what I've said. I've been doing this a long time. Anybody who comes to one of my shows must sort of have an idea of where I'm coming from.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanLongSaidIdeasCountryShowsNamesWalksGoneCostLong TimeWowTicketsOffended Author:Bill Maher
“It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.” IfsGivingWritingShowsProcessSimpleStepsMissingExampleMastersAmountInternetDisciplineCostOrganizationDown AndEnormousMarketersTime And MoneyChecklists Author:Brian Tracy
“What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.” WorldUseShowsCareJoyPurposeWishGrowsCan DoMistakeKindnessOur LivesCostAnd LoveTreatsStriveEach DayClosestLearning From Our Mistakes Author:Barack Obama
“You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.” PeopleWayShowsPayCostEnvironmentalProductionsStealingPollutionShow MeSubsidiesEnvironmental Pollution Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.” WellsArtMadeFactsShowsHumanityUniverseForceStuffMoralPolicyIgnoranceCostAchievementCapableSpeciesPracticalsCuresIndifferenceWorks Of ArtAllowingMagnificentNurtureMachineryGreat WorkLiving ThingsAstonishingDisarmamentTickCompetitivenessWarehousePhilistines Author:Steven Pinker
“After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.” MadeShowsOpportunityMistakeTerribleCostFinancialBillionsStatementsBuyingLearnersOpportunity CostFinancial Statements Author:Charlie Munger
“I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI CanCountryReasonShowsKidsSportsWhiteCitiesRichCostAssumingWinterRelevantOlympicsShow MeSkiingInner CityWinter Olympics Author:Daniel Tosh
“The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.” WayFirstsKindChildrenIdeasShowsWantedSawsSeeingTvsBrokenCostGuitarAspirationPunkTv ShowsScratchesBreakdownSpiralsBowieShelley Author:Edwyn Collins
“My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.” MadeShowsPoliticalCoursesStudyCostWeaponsArgumentIndiaBurdenMythNuclearBudgetsContributionNuclear WeaponsUnbearableCredibleDeterrentDemolishPolitical Arguments Author:Subramanian Swamy
“Let me say two things about the costs - one is that there are detailed studies that show this, this is what some of the Stanford studies show, in fact, that we get so healthier, so much more healthy, when we eliminate fossil fuel pollution - 200,000 [fewer] premature deaths a year for example. And that's just the death part of it. Not to mention the asthma part of it, the heart attacks and the strokes and the cancers. And we also call for a healthy food system that prioritizes sustainable healthy local food production.” YearsHeartTwoFactsShowsStudyExampleHealthyCostLet MeCancerProductionsLocalsTwo ThingsFuelFewerPollutionStrokesFossilsFossil FuelPrematurePrioritizeHeart AttackHealthy FoodStanfordAsthmaFood ProductionPremature DeathLocal Food Author:Jill Stein
“There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.” EnoughFactsShowsMovingEnergyPayStudyCostCreatingDollarsCleanBillionsSavedSavingDietsSavingsRenewable EnergyClean Energy Author:Jill Stein
“The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.” ShowsBehindsSunHeardDangerousWindCostLeavingDisasterDirtyFuelMassiveFarmsSpillsSlickWind Farms Author:Van Jones
“Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or less. For example, I think mortgage refinancing can cost - now, it's probably hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. So, in other words, they are allowing you to bid on what people are going to type, and that is the AdWords program. So you own certain terms, and then your ads show up as opposed to someone else's.” PeopleThinkingShowsCertainTermExampleTypeCostProgramDollarsAllowingEnginesAdsGoogleMortgageSearch Engine Author:Tim Wu
“When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.” PeopleWantMatterUseShowsYoungCan DoCostMachinesNo Matter WhatRealisingBetter Than You Author:Phil Collins
“Brasil used to have - and still has, in some ways - a strong culture of showing off. And that's not only in sneakers and streetwear. People like to show how much their sneakers cost, usually by rocking performance models with visible technology, like Nike Shox, adidas Springblade and ASICS Noosa. It's like a status symbol for someone that wants to show to the world they "succeeded in life," no matter how rich they actually are.” PeopleWorldWayWantStillsMatterShowsUsedCultureStrongTechnologyRichCostModelsPerformancesSymbolsVisibleShowing OffSneakersNikeStatus SymbolAdidas Author:Ricardo Nunes
“Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.” MenDoeMadeShowsJobsCompanyStageProductsCoupleCostHundredDollarsChinaApplesOne ManEcstasyPerformersAgonyMikeIphoneArresting Author:Eric Liu
“We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'” DoneShowsHumanityStarsCostStressGreedGet AwayPromiscuity Author:Gene Roddenberry