A Quote by Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.
If you take a single word...and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.
Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
I just build and build more yall niggas build and destroy
The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
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