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“I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.”

Hate White Race Enemy Building Development My Time Devoted White Race

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream: Mistakes Delays Starting over Failure The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.”

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

Life Is Religion Sound Education Conditions Building Purity Metaphysics Indispensable Personal Life Corny Building Up

Book:True Education

Source: True Education

“Why building self esteem?. The benefits of having self esteem are numerous. Self esteem is strongly associated with happiness, psychological resilience, and a motivating to live a productive and healthy life.”

Self Self Esteem Building Healthy Benefits Resilience Esteem Psychological Productive Healthy Life Building Self Esteem

Book:10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image

Source: 10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image

“The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.”

Play Fun Doors Building Built Opening Opening Up Building Something

Author:Walt Disney

“Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.”

Way May Fun Company Growing Building Adventure Exciting Having Fun New Things New Ways Family And Friends Disneyland Exciting Adventures

Author:Walt Disney

“The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.”

Wells Business Too Much Nice Failing Building Awful Bankers Splendor

Author:Will Rogers

“Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.”

“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'”

Thinking Long Ideas Home Running Sound President Walks Business Cases Fire Plans Building Ought Work Out Ems Beneficial Exit New Home Hoover

Author:Will Rogers

“Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.”

Way Fall Half Streets Building Revolution Industry Shadow Rivers Towns Noise Bridges Squares Crossings Civics Systematic Steep Bewildered Marshes Bluffs Confluence Refinery

Book:The Shadow of Innsmouth

Source: The Shadow of Innsmouth

“The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.”

Thinking Knows Men Heart Art Motivational Today Quality Taken Building Thinker A Man Thinketh

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.”

Persons Doe Ideas Self Motivational Acting Team Position Humility Building Concerned Humble Contribution Manifest Good Ideas Recognizing Outdated Humble Person

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"”

Thinking Want Needs Motivational Individual Term Principles Focus Rights Sacrifice Building Built Direct Agree

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.”

“We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.”

World House Building Yoga Karma Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.”

May Important Women Building Wall Healthy Boundaries Fence Bricks Brick Wall Picket Fences Healthy Boundaries

Author:Amy Dickinson

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”

School Individual Goal Education Teaching Building Goes On Ultimate Conviction Burden Educational Pursuit Odd Get Over Ultimate Goal Educational System School Buildings

Author:John W. Gardner

“As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.”

Building Journalist Rejection Grind

Author:Robert Draper

“I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.”

Thinking Fans Building Various Facets

Author:Nick Kroll

“At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.”

World Years Problem Home Found Left Difficult Stage Dangerous Building Predictable Predetermined Home Life Dangerous World

Author:Patrick Stewart

“When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.”

Individual Doors Building Stealing Statements Arson

Author:Barack Obama

“Buildings are always better than drawings and models.”

Building Models Drawing

Author:Rafael Moneo

“It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.”

Children Important Home Spiritual Prayer Practice Teaching Building Our Children Conviction Factors Spiritual Strength

Book:Women in today's world

Source: Women in today's world

“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.”

Reality Vision Influence Design Building Paper Computer Notion Architecture Drawing Traditional Architect

Author:Michael Hansmeyer

“You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.”

Two Country Winning President Break Century Policy Position Building Particular Election Arguing Faithful Predecessors Being Faithful

Author:Barack Obama

“I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.”

“Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.”

Looks Asks Building Ask Me

Author:Luis Barragan

“I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.”

Thinking Hands Eye Able Building Skills Achievement Models Construction Architect Transfers Coordination

Author:Frank Gehry

“I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.”

Thinking Knows Mean Littles Ends Building Projects Pages Draws Finished Drawing Damn Wheels The End Of The Day Keep Going Pens Scribbles

Author:Frank Gehry

“Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.”

Whole Design Building Affair Architecture Setting Settings Ambience

Author:Michael Graves

“Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage”

Matter Whole Form Space Modern Building Perspective Elements Relation Posts Relate Planes Conventions Rooted Irrational Routes Angle Unlimited Cages Ambiguous Implied Coordinates Baroque

Author:Charles Jencks

“Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.”

“I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.”

Two Stories Jesus Walks Streets Building Color Intricate Balconies Bright Colors Libre

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.”

Wells Matter Dies Building Consequence Built Mere What Matters

Author:Muriel Barbery

“When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.”

Thinking Should Mind Whole Past Support Clear Sky Building One Day Foundation Structure Ruins Palaces Dharma Builder

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.”

Existence Cases Building Limits Evidence Assignments Cumulative

Author:Russell Stannard

“A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.”

Men Together Building Strange Nails Strange Things

Book:Prince of Thorns

Source: Prince of Thorns

“The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great charities or community activities. It is not our beautiful rituals or their teachings! It is the 'practice of Freemasonry' by the Freemasons. Yet we cannot practice that which we do not know or understand. Thus Masonic education is the foundation for our Fraternity. Brother Carl H. Claudy in The Master's Book says, '.. one thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.”

“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.”

Way Shows Spirit Found House Effort Attitude Principles Seeing Style Building Constant Patterns Architecture Devices Void Shed Old Ways Hollowness Sense Of Place

Author:Jonathan Hale

“I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.”

People Thinking Two Perfect Building Couple Communicate Building Something Perfect Couple

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.”

Today Remember Building Products Improvement Former Latter Remembers Everything

Author:Justin Kan

“It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?”

“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.”

Ifs World Want Children Self Play Feelings Self Esteem Building Projects Creating Capacity Structure Enormous Esteem Internals

Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

“I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.”

Hands Building Drawing

Book:From What I Remember

Source: From What I Remember

“If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.”

Ifs Ideas House Left Building Structure Credit Plato Building Houses

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.”

Wells Reason Building Mass Enormous Minorities Empires Phenomenon Constructs Roman Empire Uprising Epoch Colossal

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.”

Should Long Has Beens Made Cities Air Building Posts Wire Automobile Hideous Billboards

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.”

“I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.”

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