“I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.” MenIdeasShowsProduceTypeMadGood IdeasMad Men Author:Eric Ladin
“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.” ShowsOrderDifferencesEffortStudyProduceApproachStructureAverageFasterDesignerMagnitude Author:Fred Brooks
“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.” WorldShouldWellsLooksShowsRealityImaginationInformationProduceTaughtPaintingProfessionPainterComparisonPoeticAnxious Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)
“To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.” WayDoeShowsBeliefProcessNaturalReligiousVirtueProduceReligious BeliefDiscredit Book:Warranted Christian Belief Source: Warranted Christian Belief
“Mayor de Blasio wants to eliminate garbage. He believes New York City produces way too much garbage. Well, heck, forget about producing too much garbage. What about late-night talk shows?” WayWantBelieveWellsShowsNightForgetCitiesToo MuchNew YorkProduceLateNew York CityGarbageMayorsTalk ShowsLate Night Author:David Letterman
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.” MenGivingDoeShowsRealitySacrificeProduceGainsGladSurrenderGreat ThingsSincereSincerityFinestPoorest Book:Among my Books, etc Source: Among my Books, etc
“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.” IfsSaidUseShowsLyingDesireProduceIndustryOne DayWasteLaborPlantPhilosopherItalianEstatesCultivationNegligence Author:Samuel Johnson
“Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.” WantSoulEndsUseShowsLightCareHumanityEnjoyChanceTeachVirtueProduceFoolLuckyGuiltRichesNobleLuxuryMinistersGenerousBreastsSunshineProvidenceNeglectedShieldsKnavesBasenessOpulence Author:John Armstrong