Scaffolding Quotes

• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Hands, Schedules

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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• Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  House, Theory

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (1892). “Anne”

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• Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Memories, Life Is

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• Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Apology, Atheism, Faults

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• You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

  Ian Paisley

  Lying, Bridges, Deceit

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• The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  House, Built

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• Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Body, Building, Destruction

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1958). “An Anthology”

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• The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

  Benito Mussolini

  Faces, Building, Mask

  Benito Mussolini (1954). “Selected Political Addresses of Benito Mussolini: Translations, Notes and Rhetorical Analysis”

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• Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Mind, Etching

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview with David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Pieces, Construction

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• When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.

  Tad R. Callister

  Integrity, Men, Rocks

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• I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.

  Kellan Lutz

  Running, Beach, Different

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• And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Heartbroken, Things In Life, Careers

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• A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

  James Geary

  Smile, Metaphor, Simile

  James Geary (2011). “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Pieces, Computer

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• The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.

  Neal Stephenson

  Writing, Interesting, Too Much

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.

  Jason Silva

  Mean, Space, Vision

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Paris, Saint, Towers

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, School, Roles

  "Our Children and the Crisis in Education" by Stephen R. Covey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

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• Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Book, Men, Earth

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• If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

  Naomi Klein

  Government, Greed, Intellectual

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• Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Science, Building

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• There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Children, Work Out, Design

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.31, Discovery House

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• Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

  Primo Levi

  Skeletons, Civilization, Stories

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Baseball, Player, Luck

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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