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• The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

  Byron Nelson

  Attitude, Firsts, Steps

  Byron Nelson, Larry Dennis (1976). “Shape your swing the modern way”, Golf Digest/Tennis

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• Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Heart, Character

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• We should be building great things that don't exist.

  Larry Page

  Should, Great Things

  "With I/O speech, Larry Page reminds us why Google rules tech" by Michael V. Copeland and Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

  Kofi Annan

  Block, Bridges, Essentials

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

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• If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

  Vernon Howard

  Heaven, Earth, Humans

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• Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Opportunity, People

  "The Best And Worst Things About Being A Billionaire: A Q&A With Mark Cuban". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Team, Pittsburgh

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• Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Thinking, Careers

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• I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

  Alice Waters

  Real, School, Lunch

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• Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking.

  Augusto Boal

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

  Marty Neumeier

  Simple, Organization, Ideas

  Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.158, Peachpit Press

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• In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

  Marvin Sapp

  Faith, God, Christian

  Song: My Testimony

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• Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

  Roger Scruton

  Space, Void, Dialogue

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• There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

  Roger Scruton

  Needs, Lasts, Architecture

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• Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

  Roger Scruton

  Needs, Purpose, Accepted

  Roger Scruton (2009). “The Roger Scruton Reader”, p.169, A&C Black

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• The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

  John Wimber

  People, Church, Gathering

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• Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Real, People, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 24, 2014

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• The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Tools, Weight

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• I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.

  Branch Warren

  Thinking, Hands, Weight

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• The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

  Kevin DeYoung

  Goal, Church, Increase

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• If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Building Up, Acting

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on revivals of religion”, p.159

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• Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

  Bernadette Peters

  Singing, Body, Lessons

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• In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Bravery, Meditation, Mind

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• If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Horizon, Looks

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• Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Team

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on tech's diversity gap". Interview with Jessica Guynn, www.usatoday.com. August 12, 2014.

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