Ideas are the building blocks of ideas.

“It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.”

— Richard P. Gabriel

“Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Steve Aoki

“The building blocks that form the foundation of your great and successful future, are the actions you take today”

— Topsy Gift

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would…

— Jim Webb

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth -…

— James Howard Kunstler

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…

— Al Franken

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

— Dave Barry

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…

— Rick Perlstein

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…

— Iain McGilchrist

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things…

— Demetri Martin

Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely…

— Gregory Petsko

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

— John Henry Holland

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

— Chip Conley