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Tag Name "Engine" (323)

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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Barry Commoner
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Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.
Harvey Mackay
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I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry. Right, Said Sophie, starting the engine. Tears might quench their fire.
Chris d'Lacey
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The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.
Ada Lovelace
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I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.
John Kander
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At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
Bill Gates
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I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.
Elon Musk
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The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.
Heinz Guderian
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
Charles de Lint
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The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.
Rush Limbaugh
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Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.
Terry Gross
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Boston is the engine of the state's economy.
Thomas Menino
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
Thomas Carlyle
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Private capitalism makes a steam engine State capitalism makes pyramids.
Frank Chodorov
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You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
Melvil Dewey
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The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.
Robert Grudin
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Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Cory Lidle
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.
Christopher Hitchens
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I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.
Steven Levy
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War is not the best engine for us to resort to nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
Thomas Jefferson
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Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.
Tom G. Palmer
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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
Vanessa Paradis
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