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“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.”

Ifs Way Heart House Doubt Building Reader Towns No Doubt Village Construction Masterpiece Expanding Convenient Modernity Builder

Book:Lark Rise to Candleford

Source: Lark Rise to Candleford

“You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.”

People Knows Want Years Believe Long Process Difficult Challenges Know How Magic Television Months Shops Magician Builder

Author:Criss Angel

“Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.”

Home Dad Percent Trade My Best Friend Ninety Back Home Builder Plumber Electrician

Author:Liam Hemsworth

“I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.”

Knows Actors Growing Up Growing Type Dad My Dad Builder

Author:Stephen Mangan

“A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.”

Littles Doe Draws Builder

Author:Renzo Piano

“the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.”

Knows States Stories New York Building Empires Tall Good Story Builder Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Craig L. Rice

“Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.”

Industry Promise Reputation Consumers Damage Fragile Cheat Delay Builder Fragile Things Warranty Consumer Confidence

Author:Virginia Knauer

“I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?”

Wonder Military Hero Remembered Scholar Builder

Author:Ferdinand Marcos

“There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana”

Home Builder Louisiana Coastal

Book:Zeitoun

Source: Zeitoun

“It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.”

Needs Problem Theory Mathematics Obvious Mathematician Builder Problem Solvers

Author:Timothy Gowers

“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.”

Knows Want Important Problem Building Products Truth Is Function Details Hardest Software Clients Requirements Builder Refinement Extraction

Author:Fred Brooks

“Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.”

Helping Values Winning Customers Builder Salespeople

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.”

Body House Heaven Christ Models Built Endure Glorious Resurrection Builder

Book:Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home

Source: Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home

“Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.”

Firsts Facts Science Certain Religion Known Knowledge Air Evidence Raises Foundation Data Branches Sensations Constructs Castles Premises Builder Edifice Castles In The Air

Author:Frances Wright

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.”

Knows Speak Written Honesty Speech Prejudice Jewels Better Life Speak The Truth Builder Written Word Curb

Author:John Galsworthy

“The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.”

Men Wells Doe Ends Done Care Pleasure Powerful He Man Kings Hero Skills Most Powerful Dogma Monument Builder Ascent Magnificence Gaiety

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.”

Two Values Three Force Cities Balance Discipline Lessons Strategy Chaos Architecture Block Distinction Anarchy Formal Irrelevant Fluid Manhattan Builder Grids Metropolis

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.”

People Want Writing Kind Different Use Running Findings Tradition Woods Different Kinds Builder

Book:The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979

Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979

“As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.”

Art Shows Theory Promise Importance Regard Scholar Volume I Promise Builder Efficacy

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”

Death Voice Cities Graves Rational Dumb Impulse Mourning Household Weeping Mourn Builder Eros Aphrodite

Author:W. H. Auden

“Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.”

Purpose Prophet Builder

Book:A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader

Source: A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader

“if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.”

Ifs May Fall House Owners Builder

Author:Hammurabi

“We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.”

May Ends Differences Results Masters Workers Builder End Results

Author:Oscar Romero

“When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.”

World Long Movement Machines Regard Mathematics Philosopher Details Traditional Uncertainty Explanation Spheres Weary Definite Behalf Systematic Builder

Author:Nicolaus Copernicus

“Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.”

Looks Jobs House Team Building Baseball Architect Builder Baseball Team

Author:Pat Gillick

“It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.”

People Want Culture Mainstream Depressing Magnificent Vicious Aesthetics Builder Forts African Culture

Author:George Carlin

“The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.”

Language Interest Four Built Army British Indian Empires Division English Language Englishmen Pillars Builder

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.”

Three Father Views Design Masters Engineering Builder Carpenter Forte Architectural Design

Author:Bobby Seale

“The Stone the Builders Rejected.”

Stones Rejected Builder Tombstone

Book:The People of the Abyss (Illustrated)

Source: The People of the Abyss (Illustrated)

“The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John

“I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.”

Bigs Names Son Masters Ran Empires Hotel Max Builder

Author:Max Walker

“I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.”

Want Art Film Careers Happened College Builder

Author:Roger Deakins

“I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Kind Moving Lines Pleasure Levels Secret Fiction Focus Capable Woods Moving Forward Rough Builder Cathedrals Caterpillars Rough Drafts

Author:Karen Russell

“But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

Men Firsts Wells Art Happens Can Do Cases Virtue Player Building Exercise Brave Builder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Building Code changes to mid-rise wood construction will give builders and the public even safer, more flexible building options. Our made-in-Ontario model for mid-rise wood provides the highest requirements for fire safety in Canada.”

Giving Made Fire Building Highest Models Safety Woods Code Canada Construction Requirements Flexible Builder Ontario

Author:Ted McMeekin

“I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!”

Found Secret Tools Stones Raised Ancient Block Primitive Asia Pyramids Builder Weighing Peru

Author:Edward Leedskalnin

“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”

“Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.”

Men May Has Beens Matter Together Order Cutting Worship Stones Organized Altars Builder

Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

“The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.”

Giving Has Beens Sometimes Christ Enemy Forgiving Faithful Disciple Builder

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.”

Jesus Doctrine Fancy Mysticism Falsehood Religious Belief Builder Founding Fathers Christian Founding Fathers Religion Founding Fathers Religious Religion God Founding Fathers Anti Religion Christianity From Founding Fathers Religion Christian

Book:The religious and moral wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: an anthology

Source: The religious and moral wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: an anthology

“Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.”

Two Faces Desire Fall Growth Millions Messages Temptation Brands Boredom Obscure Headings Builder

Author:David F. D'Alessandro

“If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.”

Ifs Doe Fall House Built Owners Constructs Builder

Book:The Code of Hammurabi

Source: The Code of Hammurabi

“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.”

Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.”

Doe Universe House Existence Doors Creator Garments Builder Carpenter Weavers

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.”

Ifs Hard Actors Hell Paid Profession Bridges Gas Stations Wayne Builder Gary Gas Stations

Author:Humphrey Bogart

“Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.”

“I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a "career builder," I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with "Caprica," the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.”

Feels Jobs Left Dark Careers Lucky Smart Draws Complexes Scripts Genre Builder Feels Right Very Smart

Author:Eric Stoltz

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