“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.” ShouldFirstsPiecesBuildingSeriousBlockNavyCasualWardrobeBuilding BlocksBlazers Author:Derren Brown
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.” ThinkingFeelsMindMaySufferingPiecesShapesRegardDareActiveBlockFlamesIronFedsStatuesMarbleRubbishHammeredAnvils Book:Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses
“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.” ThinkingGivingSeemsStuffBehindsPiecesBuildingElementsTownsStructureBlockRepeatsFabricBuilding Blocks Author:Christopher Alexander
“For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.” WayWritingYearsTwoIdeasTogetherThreeNextPiecesGroupsPaintingWoodsBlockCompanionSequenceProximity Author:Jim Moore
“Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.” IfsNeedsShouldWellsMadeDoneEnoughMightTurnsPoliticsPoorEffortEconomyRichPiecesLandAdvantageProsperityBlockLiberalismFundGrantsDivisionAgricultureTribesDistributionRevenueAcquisitionLumpsThose In NeedSmall Pieces Author:Aristotle
“Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it.” WritingWould BeNextKnowingPiecesPaintingMaterialsComputerBlockSculptureNever Quit Author:Joan Didion