Top 45 Blueprint Quotes

Jay-Z was huge. I was like 2 years old throwing up my diamond, rapping. I know all of ‘The Blueprint.’ I’ve heard that album 1,000 times. And ‘Reasonable Doubt.’

‘Blueprint 3’ is made up of songs, but it’s also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can’t be this narrow – we have to stretch out the point of view.

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we’re shooting.

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment’s requirements – from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used.

I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.

I don’t know if I have a ‘Greatest Album Ever.’ I really liked ‘The Blueprint’ by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. ‘All I Need’ was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

Being able to go to Kentucky, they had the right blueprint for me to be able to go to the NBA after one year.

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is – a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It’s not always there in the sheet music, which is sometimes just a sketchy blueprint of what the song is about.

The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos… So they’re sending out a real positive message I think to people, that you can do it yourself in a punk way, and you can still potentially be successful and get to people.

Our Vision 2030 remains the blueprint for inclusive growth, social cohesion, and prosperity for all. Under this plan, we will continue to develop skills that can help our country realise its developmental goals and address labour market issues.

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.

Some directors I worked with didn’t even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying ‘Here are our new security procedures’.

Everything is always against you when making a movie, and if you don’t have a solid blueprint that the entire team can get behind and understand and then execute, then you’re going to be lost on the set.

I always felt like there wasn’t a blueprint for father-daughter relationships – for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do with us, treat us like boys, or small women, or what? Father-daughter relationships are so unique from family to family, and I’d love to watch it explored more onstage.

You’re creating ‘ it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You’re not manufacturing somebody else’s plan, somebody else’s blueprint, somebody else’s idea that’s not yours. So when you’re creating, that’s the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

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.

When you have a blueprint doesn’t mean you can’t add another room.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Kobe taught people how to work hard, he taught you how to work hard. He gave you the blueprint of what you should do to be a successful basketball player, and work hard.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity.

Even if you have a problem with me log-rolling down to the ring, I’m going to stay true to myself. I’d rather do it my way than follow someone else’s blueprint.

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.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

With the beginning of any record for an artist there’s a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to find what the architecture is of the sound.

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.

A script is a unique literary form, because it’s not the end product; it’s a blueprint. If you’re not thinking of that end product, there’s going to be a disconnect.

Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.

The problem with the screenplay is that it’s not literature, and it’s not a film. It’s a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

There’s a lot to be said for doing what you’re not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you’re supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

I used to drink. I didn’t like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd Mayweather never drinks – and he is the blueprint for boxing.

There’s no blueprint; getting married doesn’t make you boring, having kids doesn’t make you boring, having money doesn’t necessarily have to make you boring.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

Once you have a blueprint down, you start talking to all the other heads of department to see if and how they can help to execute what you’ve imagined, and so things change and evolve. And then you have to make it work within the budget and time frame, so things change even more.

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‘made it’ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

I don’t really have a blueprint to follow besides watching interviews. Well, I guess the blueprint I do follow is Def Jam, in a way, just because it started in a small space, which is so similar to how we started.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.