Twisted Building (Pre-Earthquaked)

Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey

I am building a dream with elevators in it. - Rick Ross

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. - Ring Lardner

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeanette Rankin

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. - Charles J Givens

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. - Carrie Snow

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

The way to make a film is to begin with an earthquake and work up to a climax. - Cecil B. DeMille

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment. - Jim Collins

Abundance: 1. Big party held in a bakery; 2. A social event held in a farm building. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bad times have a scientific value. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of. - Mark Zuckerberg

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. - Lydia M. Child

Underachiever: An employee who has squatters right on the far left side of the bell curve - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. - Donald Trump

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale. - Elon Musk

My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." - Steven Wright

My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour. - Marie Antoinette

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Jim Rohn

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. - Socrates

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. - John S Mill

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Only a genius can say these four words, four times really fast without getting tongue twisted: eye, yam, stew, peed - Unknown

God is in the resume-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. - Mark Batterson

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

There is no place like home when the people who live there make 'building one another' their highest priority. - Gordon MacDonald

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. - Sergio Aragones

How much more grand is the work of our Heavenly Father as he pulls together all the varied strands of life to reveal his grand design? - Ravi Zacharias

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever. - Mohamed Al-Fayed

Our pathways often twist through stormy landscapes; but when we look back, we'll see a thousand miles of miracles and answered prayers. - David Jeremiah

Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything. - America Ferrera

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. - Biz Stone