"The most expensive part of building is the mistakes."

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Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.487, Penguin

Ken Follett

#Mistake Quotes #Building Quotes

“This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?”
“Trends don't mean very much.”
“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”
“The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.”
“A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.”
“The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.”

Source : George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.5567, Library of Alexandria
“The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.”
“Bad men do what good men only dream.”

Source : Gavin Ewart (2011). “Selected Poems 1933-1993”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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