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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• Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited

  PJ Ladd

  Block, Fundamentals, Building

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• Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

  Diane Dreher

  Block, Winning, Victory

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Block, Taken, Creativity

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• When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

  John Henry Holland

  Block, Innovation, Building

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• The building block of every community is family.

  Paul Singer

  Block, Community, Building

  "Marriage Equality Honors for Boies, Olson, Singer: Scene" by Amanda Gordon, www.bloomberg.com. February 25, 2014.

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• Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Fun, Block, Uptown

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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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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• 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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• Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

  Daniel Goleman

  Perseverance, Block, Emotional

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.100, Bantam

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

  Brian Greene

  Block, Space, Details

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.18, Random House

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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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• Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupidity And Ignorance, Hydrogen

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Witty, Block

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• The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

  Isaac Asimov

  Block, Essentials, Impossible

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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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• Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Song, Block

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• The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Block, Issues, Keys

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