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“If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.”

Ifs Stills Lasts Social Century Building Products

Author:Max Levchin

“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.”

Children Jobs Lasts Parent Class Economy Modern Middle Building Understood Our Children Investment Middle Class Grandparent Billionaire Rebuilding Parents And Grandparents

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.”

Knows Years Littles Persons Lasts My Own Company Building Son Yeah My Son Transition Last Year Groove Happy Person

Author:Carl Paladino

“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

“The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.”

People Men World Want Real Lasts Grows Water Natural Modern Building Flow Architecture Circles Fake Real World Circle Of Life Fake World

Author:Eustace Conway

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.”

People World Humans Lasts Forget Vision Building Theory Periods Method Blind Spots Landscape Shock Vocabulary Relativity Disturbance Computing Stunned Upheaval Blind Spots Tics

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.”

Ifs Want Love Needs Important Real Enough Lasts Building Important Things Coast Want Something Love Someone If You Love Someone Important Things In Your Life

Book:The Novels of Nora Roberts

Source: The Novels of Nora Roberts

“If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.”

Ifs Life Earth Lasts Building Mountain Summit

Author:Confucius

“...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?”

Thinking Men Feels Firsts Said Ends Stories Lasts Three Hours Saws Building Thirds Fellows Eight The End Of The Day Feel Better Bricks Cathedrals Irritated Making A Living Bricklayers

Author:Bill Vaughan

“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”

Feels Trying Home Eye Lasts Figures Objects Building Please Comfortable Adults Filling Acquiring Things Building A Home

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.”

Book Lasts Reading Support Students Building Reader Tools Setting Settings Classroom Exposing Reading Experience

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.”

Thinking Way Kind Ideas Lasts Film Break Comedy Building Jokes Suspense Tension Thrillers

Author:Corey Feldman

“When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.”

Needs Lasts Company Team Building Finance Executives Partnership Components Strategic

Author:Michael J. Saylor

“The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.”

Source: Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Varoius Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy from 1832 to 1836 by Charles Darwin

“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.”

Kind Lasts Values Politics Social Family Poverty Crime Youth Building Crisis Blame Breakdown Darwinism Family Values Social Darwinism

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.”

Feels Made Jobs Lasts Felt Sides Building Wall Music Is Feel Good Apprentice Music Is My Life Bricklayers

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.”

Lasts Goal Building Computer Finished Computer Science

Author:William C. Brown

“In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.”

Ifs Different Lasts Guy Hours Church Week Building Messages Laughter West China Broke Pastor Church Buildings

Author:Francis Chan

“Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.”

Years Use Lasts Changed Building Definitions Enterprise Software

Author:Aaron Levie

“Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.”

Ifs Art Lasts Understanding Minutes Building Products Add Marketing Invisible Remarkable Offering Noticing Last Minute Slapping Building Things

Author:Seth

“A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.”

“I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building...I changed my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over and landed on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happened and one turns to the other and says, "See, that's how it's done."”

Mind Littles Two Done Humor Funny Lasts Turns Saws Happened Feet Minutes Changed Building Suicide Commit Jumping Kitten Last Minute Flipped Jumping Off

Author:Steven Wright

“This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.”

Years Mean States Lasts United Millions United States Building Creating Capable Billions Administration Opposition Last Year Sheer Scenarios Identifying Tracking Orwellian Alarmists

Author:William Safire

“If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.”

Ifs Lasts Games Economy Building Serious Standards Picks Raises High Standards Quality Education

Author:Barack Obama

“The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.”

Years Firsts Lasts Five Produce Building Intuition Five Years Reflecting Last Five Years

Author:David Adjaye

“The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.”

May Home Seems Lasts Building Simplicity Coming Home Continuity Plasticity

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Bible prophecies indicate that in the last dispensation of the gospel, there would be a restoration of all of the principles and practices of former dispensations, which includes temple-building and the performing of ordinances therein.”

Would Be Lasts Principles Practice Building Former Performing Temples Prophecy Restoration Ordinances Bible Prophecy

Author:David B. Haight

“In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing... and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary.”

Thinking World Believe Lasts Building Creating Evidence Bigger Contrary Despite Architect Better Place Pathology

Author:Jonathan Meades

“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.”

“Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.”

People Important Care Lasts Challenges Cities Creation Building Satisfying

Author:Philip Johnson

“If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.”

“Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.”

World Dream Lasts Accepting Building Last Words Insisting

Author:Shane Claiborne

“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.”

People World Want Needs Years Humans Children War Jobs Lasts Used Desire Peace Leader Changed Building Safety Shelter Good Job World Leader Love Of Money Waging War Desire Love

Author:Jim Clifton

“My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?”

Lasts Given Worry Building Particular Ill Relevant Polls

Author:Barack Obama

“We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world.”

“One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.”