Building Blocks Quotes

• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

  Kofi Annan

  Reading, Bridges, Full Potential

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Mean, Men

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

  Mike Paul

  Trust, Honesty, Block

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• For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

  Kofi Annan

  Full Potential, Dams, Literacy

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

  Ricky Gervais

  Block, Trying, Failing

  "The Internet Is My Playground" by Ricky Gervais, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2013.

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• The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Jobs, Block, Past

  "Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher". History Today, July 1999.

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• Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

  Charles Capps

  Block, Building, Constructs

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• Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Life, Spiritual, Honesty

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• Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

  Louis L'Amour

  Block, Book, Men

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• The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide.

  Mark Geragos

  New York, Block, Recovery

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• It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead to sickness and death. Consider this: If your food had a face or a mother (or comes from something that did), then it also has varying amounts of artery-clogging, plaque-plugging, and cholesterol-hiking animal protein, animal cholesterol, and animal fat. These substances are the building blocks of the chronic diseases that plague Western society.

  Rip Esselstyn

  Mother, Block, Animal

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• Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

  Gary Rydstrom

  Block, Sound, Essentials

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• Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to look at the guitar in a different way - and how to tap into that thing inside of me that was already leaning toward improvisation. You learn other players' licks at first; then you take off the training wheels and start using the licks as building blocks to make your own thing. That's how influences work. somewhere in whatever I do, there's a little bit of Hendrix - plus about a hundred others

  Junior Brown

  Music, Block, Teenager

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• The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Family, Block, Building

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• Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.

  Fritjof Capra

  Block, Doe, Attention

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• When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

  Carl Sagan

  Block, Molecules, Different

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.76, Penguin

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• Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

  Dan Chaon

  Block, Thinking, Plot

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

  Demetri Martin

  Block, Play, Use

  "Demetri Martin Talks Comedy". Interview with Harmon Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.

  Joyce Meyer

  Strong, Block, Building

  Joyce Meyer (2000). “Help Me, I'm Married!”, Harrison House Incorporated

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• I was working with actors who were very easy to work with, but I can just imagine how, with all the other decision-making problems that come up along the way, in addition to that, the whole point of what your doing is following performance and character development. You're building your story with those building blocks, and it is not easy. I've only come out with more respect for directors, from this.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Block, Character, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

  Julia Cameron

  Block, Building

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.218, Souvenir Press

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• Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

  Quentin Crisp

  Block, Lying, People

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

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• The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Success, Block

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• Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

  Jim DeMint

  Block, Men, Civilization

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• Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.

  Fritjof Capra

  Nature, Block, Science

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