Equipment Quotes

• It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Use, Littles

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• We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.

  James Dillet Freeman

  Loss, Nerves, World

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• If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

  Sally Rand

  Trying, Care, Ifs

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• Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

  Delia Smith

  Kitchen, Pay, Lasts

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• People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

  Christopher Morley

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Skills, Poison, Adequate

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.15, Elsevier

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• An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Hands, Punishment

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• I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

  Elizabeth David

  Two Friends, Kitchen, Shops

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• I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Complicated, Rich

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• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Dog, Business, Future

  "At Lunch, Donald Trump Gives Critics Hope" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. November 22, 2016.

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• I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

  Geddy Lee

  Thinking, Names, Different

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• But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Player, Injury, Periods

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• The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Quality, Hazards, Care

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• Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Numbers, World, Four

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.258, Courier Corporation

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• Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Feelings, Venture

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.

  John Spratt

  Two, Oil, People

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• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  Walter Murch

  Real, People, Cards

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.

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• Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

  Audrey Meadows

  Mother, Tourism, Cameras

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• Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

  Thomas Dolby

  Mean, Firsts, Late

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• Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Work Out, Bags

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  Abdus Salam

  Patience, Data, Sublime

  Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific

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• We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

  Philippe Perrin

  Two, Space, Machines

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• Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Country, Suffering, Troops

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• Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

  Herman Wouk

  Thinking, People, Religion

  HERMAN WOUK (1955). “MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR”

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• Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy

  Delia Smith

  Hands, Energy, Essentials

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