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“Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.”

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Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.”

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Author:Le Corbusier

“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.”

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Author:Yi-Fu Tuan

“Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.”

“I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.”

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Author:Ralph Eugene Meatyard

“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”

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Author:Adrienne Clarkson