The best romance writers know there’s nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.
Running my fund in 2008 felt a little like being Noah. Noah builds his ark, and he puts his family on the ark, and off they go. So he and his family are safe, and everybody else is dying.
Algorithms learn by being fed certain images, often chosen by engineers, and the system builds a model of the world based on those images. If a system is trained on photos of people who are overwhelmingly white, it will have a harder time recognizing nonwhite faces.
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion – the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
When the confidence builds it is easier for the player to come into the next game.
Smart development builds on a region’s own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.
Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home.
Not only does work experience provide the opportunity to sample a potential career, but it also builds the essential skills often regarded as ‘soft skills’ that are needed to thrive in work.
We must ask ourselves: Are we a confident, forward-looking nation that builds monuments – like DACA – to hope and determination? Or are we a nation that is turned inward, lauding monuments to intolerance and division?
When you are in positions of privileged access… you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up.
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom ‘Finding the origin of the universe’ or ‘Seeking to cure cancer.’ Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem – a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture.
It’s like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
There’s something great about being on location with a bunch of people – there’s a camaraderie and intimacy that builds up over time.
We live in a world that builds people’s expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn’t like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
Biology, it’s the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.
I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind – which is never a bad thing.
They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
I tell students that even if they don’t like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool – a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.
Being quickest in practice is nice. It builds a lot of confidence overnight.
Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
Apple’s advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn’t excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.
The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
I definitely want to put my kids in gymnastics at an early age, whether that’s what they want to or not. Gymnastics just builds such a great fundamental strength at a young age, and they get great; they learn how to move with their body. I think that can translate to any sport later in life.
You can see girls getting too excited and they start crying or worse. In a lot of these countries they don’t get a lot of gigs to go to, so when they get to see their favorite artist they take full advantage of it. Obviously the excitement builds up too much for some on the night and they get a bit… crazy.
In modeling, because you’re the center of attention, it builds up people’s egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.
I personally believe in bringing your whole self to work and being open and transparent, even vulnerable. I believe that builds trust, loyalty, and a sense of belonging and passion.
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up – when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about – and I’m thinking about it all the time, but I’m not really inside it, inside the writing.
We don’t have the money of the Manchester clubs or Chelsea. Arsenal builds its team through training, through recruiting players who can become something. Arsenal has less money than some other clubs, so we have to fight with other values.
Capital never builds great products.
Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.
You don’t need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.
Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.
Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters… You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there’s a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.
There’s just so much girl-on-girl hate. It happens to start in high school, and then it builds and gets bigger and bigger, and it seems like for some reason there’s this mentality that if another girl does well, she’s taking my spot.
A guy who builds his own rocket in his garage, about to jump a mile, is pretty cool. It’s the most interesting human-interest story in the world.
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don’t know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it’s consummated, the tension’s over.
When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.
