“I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.” TryingYearsFirstsWellsTogetherAmericaHalfWonderfulShareLandProduceConceptsDecidedDiedExperimentsWorking ItCommunistPilgrimComing To America Author:Ted Cruz
“He [Donald Trump] is the one who got him [Barack Obama] to finally produce the birth certificate. Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue. He picked this up from Hillary Clinton.” FirstsIssuesProduceTrumpBirthClintonRaisedCampaignsBarackCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Rudy Giuliani
“First you document your idea. You should be comprehensive, but that doesn't mean you have to produce a doctoral thesis length plan. Rather you want to make sure you have touched all the different things that have to happen to succeed. Then, you evaluate your approach. The goal here isn't to figure out if your idea is good or bad, but rather to begin to figure out what are some of its weakest elements.” IfsWantShouldFirstsMeanIdeasDifferentHappensGoalPlansFiguresProduceSucceedElementsApproachTouchedDifferent ThingsLengthDocumentsComprehensiveEvaluateThesis Author:Scott D. Anthony
“The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.” FirstsPersonsProduceMetsSeriesProducersHarry PotterPottersFirst PersonUnsuccessfulHarry Potter Series Author:Greg Mottola
“The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.” FirstsSoundSpaceSituationProduceMaterialsListeningSkillsConsiderationAdopting Author:Pauline Oliveros
“In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."” IfsKnowsFirstsWellsSaidWantedProduceDirectLet MeOriginalsFenceAugustScreenplaysWilson Author:Denzel Washington
“We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.” ThinkingFirstsLooksKindDifferentWholeShowsTermLevelsResultsEconomicStudentsProduceReturnRight NowAchievementToughFundamentalsImpactDollarsInvestmentSpendingFlawsMore MoneyLots Of MoneyFixingPositive ImpactReturn On InvestmentStudent AchievementTough Economic Times Author:Michelle Rhee
“I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.” ThinkingFirstsLooksPersonsMadeTodayLevelsQualityAchieveProducePercentAwfulPotRichnessElementalsPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.” PeopleFirstsHumansSelfUnderstandingNumbersPrinciplesVirtueProgressHuman NatureProduceDependsMoralityFree MarketGovernanceConservatismInteractingVests Author:Mary Matalin
“Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?” FirstsHumansSeemsProcessTreeProduceEvolutionInternetMoonCreaturesOceanCrossesExtraordinaryFishesBoatOaksHuman EvolutionOak TreeSlugs Author:Steven Pinker
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” MenLoveFirstsSelfFeelingsWisdomUnderstandingInterestQualityKindnessHonestyProduceStrangeFailureGreedAppreciationAdmireGenerosityOpennessAnarchyTraitsSelf InterestEgotismMeannessDetestGenerosity And KindnessKindness GenerositySharpness Book:The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl Source: The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl
“To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.” IfsFirstsEnoughDreamAttentionWrittenProduceGood EnoughStraightforwardScreenwriters Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.” FirstsMayPerfectStageCarProduceFaultsCoachesUnlikelyMotorMotor Cars Author:Edward de Bono