Building Blocks To Success Quotes

Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group. ~ Jonathan Davis

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing. ~ Lance Armstrong

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. ~ Ted Sundquist

Life is going to throw you some blocks. You will decide if they are going to be your stumbling blocks or your building blocks ~ Saji Ijiyemi

It helps omit uninteresting details, provides convenient building blocks (such as while and console.log), allows you to define your own building blocks (such as sum and range), and makes those blocks easy to compose. ~ Marijn Haverbeke

Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited ~ PJ Ladd

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A. ~ Steve Aoki

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. ~ Julian Assange

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them. ~ Ha-Joon Chang

I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it. ~ Al Franken

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

Books aren't just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read. ~ Jonathan Hull

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted. ~ Nina Garcia

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it. ~ Margaret Heffernan

A single water drop contains all the necessary building blocks needed for life. ~ Anthony T. Hincks.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. ~ Dave Barry

Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject. ~ Peter Atkins

The true fundamental building blocks of the universe are not particles, but moments in time. ~ Khalid Masood

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules. ~ Carl Sagan

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. ~ Mike Paul

The building block of every community is family. ~ Paul Singer

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. ~ Zaha Hadid

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations. ~ John Henry Holland

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense. ~ Keith O'Brien

Workaholism is a block, not a building block. ~ Julia Cameron

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own. ~ Brian Celio

Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system. ~ Tony Tan

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems. ~ John Henry Holland

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. ~ Michael Eisner

A leader must inspire or his team will expire. ~ Orrin Woodward

The building blocks that form the foundation of your great and successful future, are the actions you take today ~ Topsy Gift

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

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. ~ Warren Farrell

On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations ... It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur ... If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space. ~ Christopher Alexander

We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up. ~ George Osborne

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available. ~ Wolfgang Ketterle

ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself ~ Tony Dovale

Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This bill supports and cultivates marriage. ~ Maria Miller

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town. ~ Christopher Alexander

Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas ~ Tony Dovale

The Z-particle Pure energy - no mass at all. It may well be the
smallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy. ~ Dan Brown

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society. ~ Jim Ryun

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building. ~ Madeleine Albright

Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and beyond everything. ~ Graham Elliot

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play. ~ Nelly

Every success and every bit of progress, is a building block for your next step. ~ Auliq Ice

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient. ~ Michael Lee-Chin

This IS exactly how things look just before your dreams ignite! ~ Liz Hester

I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place. ~ Shirley Temple

Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place. ~ Liz Hester

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov. ~ Rick Perlstein

When your heart feels strangely warm, you've found your love ~ Liz Hester

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. ~ Arthur Henderson

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t? ~ Quentin Crisp

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. ~ Gary Chapman

Sacrifice has great value in that it not only achieves personal success but builds successful communities, nations and humanity. Each moment spent in selfless sacrifice makes you a stronger person, and such strength fosters the required determination to cope with adversity and hardship for the sake of others. ~ Vishwas Chavan

There are building blocks of love and the very bottom layer is comfort. (from Vanishing Acts) ~ Jodi Picoult

Go within and release yesterday's sorrow so you may embrace today's joy. ~ Liz Hester

In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it's probably one of the building blocks of conscience. ~ Susan Cain

One resourceful mom took her son's fixation on the video game Minecraft and made real wood "Minecraft" blocks for her son and the neighborhood kids to play with. This provided a connection between building things in the virtual world and building structures in the real world. ~ Rich Weinfeld

The world is your mirror...love what you see and you love YOU! ~ Liz Hester

Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building. ~ Anonymous

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. ~ Murray Gell-Mann

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living. ~ Randy Alcorn

The building blocks of Life are made up of shapes and spaces. ~ Joey Lawsin

The three processes - people, strategy, and operations - remain the building blocks and heart of good execution. ~ Ram Charan

I can do what I dream of doing, one breath and one step at a time. ~ Liz Hester

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. ~ Jane Jacobs

Excellent cognitive function starts in the kitchen because that's where the nutritional materials (whole foods) are prepared to act as our brain and body building blocks. ~ John Pierre

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things. ~ Collis Potter Huntington

If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way. ~ Nicole Haislett

It's not how you come out of the starting blocks. ~ Franco Harris

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building. ~ Stephen Covey

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it. ~ Nicholas Kristof

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position. ~ Nancy Kress

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them. ~ Theodore Zeldin

I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life. ~ Robert Muller

Genes and education are fundamental building blocks with witch man develops personality and lifestyle in one way or other... ~ Monica Rus Carmen Psychologyst

Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks? ~ Chris Bent

There is no shortcut to confidence building; it is a process that involves succeeding at something challenging. One needs to consciously work on every aspect of confidence building whether for one's own benefit or the benefit of others. ~ Vishwas Chavan

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together. ~ Iain McGilchrist

Sometimes we look around and realize we need new friends. That's the sign that they are just around the bend :) ~ Liz Hester

As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas. ~ Robert Genn

I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.
Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas. ~ Toba Beta

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks." ~ Wayne Dyer

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him. ~ Ron Fournier

Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ... ~ Edwin Lionel Flynn

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business. ~ Greg Brenneman

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness. ~ Og Mandino

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. ~ Helmut Jahn

By the time you look a few hundred feet down, you are looking at a snapshot of the past that has remained undisturbed for millions of years. In the blockchain, the most recent few blocks might be revised if there is a chain recalculation due to a fork. The top six blocks are like a few inches of topsoil. But once you go more deeply into the blockchain, beyond six blocks, blocks are less and less likely to change. ~ Andreas M. Antonopoulos

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. ~ Kofi Annan

Since the water turns into Ice
Different physical shapes the eye See
but indeed their building blocks still remain same easy,
(H2O)
Farah Said. ~ Farah Said

Concrete experiences serve as the primary building blocks from which we extend our capacity for thought and give rise to more abstracted concepts.

We understand the new in terms of the known. ~ Nick Sousanis

Often, exactly big complexes force an individual to achieve their big goals and massive success. ~ Sahara Sanders