Quotes About Blueprints

#1. Your dreams are the blueprints of your soul. They should take you by the hand and lead you toward your life's purpose and passion. They are one of, if not the greatest, source of self-motivation that you have. So nurture them and feed them inspiration whenever you can.

Mac Anderson

#2. We build model ships in bottles, whispering life into the toothpicks and wire; we make plans and blueprints for the one we hope is coming. And come they do. Fleets of vessels. Battleships and barges. They arrive on the horizon, flags to the sky.

Sarah Kay

#3. We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.

Patrick McGrath

#4. I am not! said the guy's girlfriend, who was wearing a very short skirt, very high heels and the kind of complicated hairstyle that looks like it needs blueprints and a construction crew.

Paul Rudnick

#5. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#6. Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

Louis Eric Barrier

#7. We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

Doris Lessing

#8. One eye filled with blueprints
one eye filled with night

Leonard Cohen

#9. If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation.

Hannah Moskowitz

#10. Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

Joey Comeau

#11. Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams.

Toni Sorenson

#12. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Margaret Mead

#13. Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the "disturbances" in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.

Gregg Braden

#14. To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

Evan Bayh

#15. Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

David Hewson

#16. People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject ... Paint a sense of place.

Paul Strisik

#17. Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

#18. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.

Enuma Okoro

#19. People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

Jess Walter

#20. Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

Daniel Snyder

#21. But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.

Jodi Picoult

#22. It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

Ian McEwan

#23. I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

George R R Martin

#25. Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#26. It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

John O'Callaghan

#27. Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Napoleon Hill

#28. MINECRAFT HOUSES A collection of blueprints by JUST STEVE

Just Steve

#29. There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.

Kin Hubbard

#30. Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Anthony Daniels

#31. Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#32. I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do ... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

Drew Barrymore

#33. I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

Red Grooms

#34. Blueprints are like pets and children
difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours.

Margo Kaufman

#35. Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Diana Wynne Jones

#36. Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to
Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#37. Dreams are the blueprints to the things we want. They never come to life if we don't put in the work to make them happen. Nothing you really want just falls into your lap. The obstacles in the way to realizing your dream tend to fall out of nowhere. Nobody wants those.

Bethany Bazile

#38. Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

Kevin McCarthy

#39. God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.

Richard Tyler

#40. As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

Barbara Delinsky

#41. It is genes that allow the human mind to learn, to remember, to imitate, to imprint, to absorb culture, and to express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints. Nor are they just the carriers of heredity. They are active during life;

Matt Ridley

#42. Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#43. Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

Chuck Palahniuk

#44. Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Steven Pinker

#45. Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.

Paulo Coelho

#46. A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Marshall McLuhan

#47. Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#48. The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

James Cook

#49. Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

Donald Glover

#50. A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Jared Diamond

#51. The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Barbara Delinsky

#52. There's no blueprint on how to beat me.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#53. My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!

Rush Limbaugh

#54. Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

Eckhart Tolle

#55. It started off really ... claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn't get with that

Rihanna

#56. Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

Shannon L. Alder