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“I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.”

Wells Littles Water Morning Sun Building Sitting Fingers Bones Shade Cake Afternoon Potters Sketching Old Buildings Chilled

Author:Howard Pyle

“There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle.”

Knows Mean Country Home Building India China Lifestyle Emerging Brazil Building A Home

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform”

Lasts Found Building Months Unique Partners Online Platforms Uniqueness Amazon Sellers Offline

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.”

Ifs Trying Ends Jobs Pay Building Exercise Concerned Folks Making Money Cinema Good Times Having A Good Time Parasites

Author:Russell Crowe

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency”

Want Order Energy Building Products Source Comfort Owners Efficiency Integrated Transactions Energy Efficiency

Author:John Barth

“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.”

Dream Together Guy Order Realizing Week Modern Century Fronts Building Couple Architecture Bunch Metals Architect Slap

Author:David Byrne

“I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.”

Years Kind Littles Done Film Building Competition Disappointed Scorsese Marty

Author:Clint Eastwood

“If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.”

Ifs Choices Building Buying Collectors Pollock

Author:Damien Hirst

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.”

Ifs Feels May Today Together Work Building Good Work Strain Nurturing Coalitions

Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.”

Character Danger Building Activity Intellectual Intellect

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.”

States Social Justice United United States Four Feet Building Criminals Circles Wheels Metals Frozen Sculpture Attorney Justice System Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Gridlock

Author:Jonathan Larson

“The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.”

People Together Left Water Influence Building Bird Landscape Sand Reeds

Author:Zaha Hadid

“We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.”

Real Worry Risk Danger Possibility Building Pride Habit Concepts Mere Species Leaving Exposed Probability Real Ones Barricades Confounding

Book:Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world

Source: Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world

“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”

People Self Individual Groups Building Empathy Tools Function Obsessed Allowing Self Obsessed

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.”

Ifs Art Creativity Creation Building Reuse

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.”

Democracy Building Essentials Capitalism Absolutes Socialism Luxury Socialist

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.”

Whole Results Building Harmony Height Proportion Agreement Length Width

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.”

Way Art Use Used Building Revolution Industry Moved Handle Bridges Steel Technological Sculpture Builder

Author:Richard Serra

“Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.”

Giving Has Beens Building Protect Giving Up Definitions Surface Harm Insecurity

Author:David Whyte

“Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.”

Writing Believe Inspiration Novel Building Wall Construction Bricks

Author:Frank Yerby

“Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.”

Building Pride Rivalry Morale

Author:Anthony Zinni

“The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.”

People Nations Responsibility Building Honor Building The Future

Author:Hosni Mubarak

“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”

Character Values Turns Wealth Poor Economy Building Wealthy Character Building

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.”

Men Made Building Boat Landscape Etc Construction Man Made Things

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Hard Play Games Winning Player Building Losing Win Or Lose Play Hard

Author:Nick Saban

“People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.”

People Ifs Thinking Psychology Building Athlete Bricks Psychologist Crackers

Author:David James

“When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.”

Should Firsts Pieces Building Serious Block Navy Casual Wardrobe Building Blocks Blazers

Author:Derren Brown

“Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.”

Children War Might Poor Military Building Red Crosses International Terrorism Burning Bombs Afghanistan Contrast Starving Afghan Us Military Red Cross

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.”

Issues Fire Effects Design Building Materials Industry Method Structure Terrorism Protection Traditional Code Tragic Construction Steel Infrastructure Evaluate Construction Industry

Author:Craig Scott

“This is a natural evolution, building a complete bath ensemble program and the Joseph Abboud bath brand within the Creative Bath family of licensed programs.”

Natural Creative Building Evolution Program Brands Baths Ensemble

Author:Bob Weiss

“Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.”

World Use Home Water Millions Building Industry India Clean China Harvest Clean Water Pioneering Heating Rainwater

Author:Christopher Flavin

“I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.”

Way Should Lying Left Millions Fire Position Building Bed Should Have Perseverance Disaster Burning Keep Going Setback Second Thoughts Shipping Fire Burning Burning Down

Author:Jonathan Adler

“You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.”

World Want Wells Action Grows Building Stopping Fraternal

Author:Lanza del Vasto

“Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle soundsin your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didnt know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.”

Ifs Knows Mind Body Sound Rooms Silence Building Planets Listening Quiet Degrees Music Is Ears Obvious Hearing Your Body Giants Subtle Dishes Just Listen Radar Being Played

Author:Jan Chozen Bays

“At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.”

Should Years Wells May I Can Two Enough Light House Half Steps Building Studios Two Years Bedroom Chimneys Bedroom House

Author:E. J. Hughes

“Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.”

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”

Culture Nations Social Church Justice Building Diversity Social Justice Uplifting Engaged Nation Building Church Buildings

Author:Marcus Garvey

“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.”

Knows Inspirational Years Persons Character Lost Building Dollars Billions Driving Teenager Quarters Life Lesson Character Building Best Job Stanford Stanford University

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”

People Knows Humans Mean Use Feelings Science Speak Language Grows Wonder Knowledge Wonderful Building Clothes Mathematics Pool Human Experience Ecstatic

Author:Steve Jobs

“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?”

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

Beautiful Form Song Growth Acceptance Building Creating Endless Allowing Destroying Pulling Chasing

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”

“A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.”

Men World Has Beens Made Done Whole Body America Nations Felt Conditions Building He Man Pride Whole World Accomplished Canals Debtors Tropics Panama Panama Canal

Book:Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“It’s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right, the building won’t stand upright, and if a woman’s balance isn’t right, nothing else is.”

Ifs Art Beautiful Building Balance Foundation Shoes Distinctive

Author:Jimmy Choo

“How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.”

Beautiful Form Nature Building Materials Creating Destroying Pulling Chasing Particles

Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.”

World Humans Long Action Earth Nature Natural Human Beings Responsibility Share Land Building Source Resources Harmony Productive Conservation Natural Resources Nature Conservation

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.”

Wells Might Race Building Horse Navy Destroyers Race Horses

Book:The World Crisis

Source: The World Crisis