Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.
When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless. . . " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.
Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
I don't mind a gut. In fact, I would prefer a guy to have a gut than be too built.
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see. I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone. . . the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds. . . that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.
Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the self-interest of the rest of the world. That's inevitable.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.