Bricks Quotes

• Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

  Will Smith

  Wall, Focus, Trying

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• Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

  Jeremy Gilley

  One Day, Steps, One Word

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• Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Choices, Victory, One Day At A Time

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

  Will Smith

  Wall, Perfect, Today

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• Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

  Lydia M. Child

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Habit

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.290, Pelican Publishing

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• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Architecture

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• All in all you're just another brick in the wall

  Roger Waters

  Wall, Expression

  Song: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

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• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

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• Even a brick wants to be something

  Louis Kahn

  Want

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• Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.

  Nicole McKay

  Independent, Cracks, Ease

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• As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

  Terry Pratchett

  World, Patient

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.10, Random House

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• A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Careers, House, Made

  "Portrait of the Artist: Andrea Bocelli, Tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

  Dorothy Day

  Progress, Steps, One Step At A Time

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• The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

  Pope Francis

  People, Building

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Bricks And Mortar, Topography

  "Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical With Unearthing". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. August 9, 2010.

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• The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Lying, Believe

  "Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency". Book by Elliot L. Jurist, 2000.

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• We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

  David Suzuki

  Nature, Wall, Car

  "Green giants: the eco power list" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Latin, Rome, Cities

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

  William Blake

  Law, Religion, Stones

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Wall, Order, People

  Interview with Kristin Hahn, www.elle.com. August 4, 2009.

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• The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

  John Dos Passos

  Views, Generations, World

  John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”

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• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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