#blueprint

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#ashamed #because #behind #blueprint #endlessly

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin. ↗

— David Graeber

#blueprint #capitalism #centralization #planning #social-change

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#american #american people #blueprint #budget #children

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. ↗

— Little Richard

#blueprint #guided #had #i #idea

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#blueprints #construction #diagrams #other #process

There's not a blueprint for me to follow. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#follow #me

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#building #built #finished #finished product #likely

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. ↗

— Roy Acuff

#original

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course. ↗

— Red Grooms

#blueprints #could #course #done #had

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#aiming #always #blueprints #dealing #extent