Drafting Quotes

• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boards, Bars, Tools

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• Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

  Peter James

  Bridges, Worry, Golden

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• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Hammers, Use

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• Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

  Jon Postel

  Groups, Valuable, Discussion

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• What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

  Ice Cube

  Careers, Wings, House

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• I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

  Ice Cube

  Art, Class, Want

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• The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself so I am at the edge of discomfort...Later, it will be time for consideration and reconsideration, slow, careful revision and editing. But on the first draft I have to achieve velocity, just as you do if you want the bike to balance.

  Donald Murray

  Believe, Writing, Editing

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• Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.

  David Starkey

  Writing, Voice, Feelings

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

  Emma Bonino

  Firsts, Steps, Constitution

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• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.

  Ice Cube

  Art, School, Perspective

  "Ice Cube Discusses His Collaboration With RareInk". Interview with Melinda Brocka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

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• Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

  David Stern

  Smart, Agents, Management

  "NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.

  Jennifer Tipton

  Believe, Hands, Years

  Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com

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• Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Men, Errors

  "The Man versus the State: Great Essays".

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• Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.

  Allison Joseph

  Thinking, Play, Lines

  Source: atticusreview.org

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• As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

  Helen Clark

  Mean, Roles, Process

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• The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

  Du Fu

  Clouds, Voice, Answers

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• When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.

  Karen Russell

  Character, Reality, Process

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

  Jude Deveraux

  Art, Book, Play

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• By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

  John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

  Giving, Principles, May

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• When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

  Bart Stupak

  Language, Right To Life, Nun

  "Rep. Stupak Dismisses Letter from Nuns" by Jake Gibson, www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.

  Jon Stewart

  Father, Believe, July

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• I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Years, United States, Looks

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• So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character to admit to that so I could get to the next, more interesting level in the story.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Interesting, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.

  Chris Hayes

  Moving, Long, Waiting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.

  Adrian Tomine

  Acceptance, Artist, Perspective

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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