James Redfield

One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.

American Author

Heather Brooke

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

American Journalist

John McEnroe

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

American Tennis Player

Edmund Wilson

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

American Critic

James Purefoy

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.

English Actor

Graham Norton

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Irish Celebrity

Harry Triguboff

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

Australian Businessman

Thomas Rhett

My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could entertain a brick wall.

American Musician

Megyn Kelly

I think the most effective managers in the world have a team that wants to jump through brick walls for them.

Bryan Cranston

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

American Actor

Think of 'brick' as rough to touch, often used to signify sturdiness or traditional styles.

Material Texture

When 'brick' is mentioned, people often think of the red or brown color typical of clay bricks.

Associated Color

'Brick' can symbolize the basic, strong foundation of something larger or more complex.

Building Foundations

In tech, 'brick' means something is as useless as a lump of clay brick - it's broken.

Technology Failure

'Bricking' usually happens during failed updates or jailbreaking, rendering the device useless.

Update With Caution

A 'brick' can refer to a large sum of money, often implying success or wealth.

Large Sum

Recognize that using 'brick' for money is very informal and best suited for casual conversations.

Slang Nuance

In sports, 'brick' implies failure and disappointment, often used for missed shots in basketball.

Sports Metaphor

Outside of sports, calling something a 'brick' can imply it is a clumsy or heavy failure.

Figuratively Speaking

 And you can have what we call organic molecules, and these are the bricks of life, and you can have fossils, and you can minerals, biominerals, which is due to the reaction between bacteria and rocks, and of course you can have gases in the atmosphere. And when you look at those tiny green algae

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 diverse line of women struggling to stand in silence demonstrating our resolve we saw each other and we knew we are not alone in her anger and fear or even our courage it actually felt like our hearts were beating and sink brick by brick spread like wildfire we are mailing jumpsuits to people

The healing power of...

 which spiraled to the top of the dome with vertical bricks acting his bookends to hold the others in place they laid about one roll a week giving the mortar time to cure at this rate the dome grew at a snail's pace of about a foot a month but perhaps most puzzling is how

How an Amateur Built the...

 to redirect river water and farm large areas of previously bone-dry land. Agricultural communities like this were slowly springing up around the world. But Sumerians were the first to take the next step. Using clay bricks made from river mud,

The rise and fall of...

 significant findings from these excavations the first is the world's earliest Buddhist structure and it's not built in brick it's not built in stone it's actually built in timber so it's really exciting because it gives us for

Discovery: Buddha's...

 bricks fell on you. And we forgot that people made choices and decisions. We forgot responsibility. That was the first cost. The second cost was that we forgot about you people. We forgot about improving normal lives.

The new era of positive...

 or was it the one that I had physically given life to? Was my purpose to scorch the earth or was it to make it a better place for my family? And suddenly, like a ton of bricks hit me,

My descent into...

 systems, bricks and mortar. We have tons of input for designers of all stripes to work with. We know, for example, from research what's most important to people who are closer to

What really matters at...

 and they're strong enough to lift the equivalent of ten house bricks being big has allowed them to cultivate some rare talents true to their name they can crack a

This Crab Can't Swim,...

 last autumn I proposed to use these bricks to build a great wall around pyramidan to protect us from polar bears and they are still thinking about it