I love the word “building” because it turns life into a project instead of an accident. Nobody drifts into a strong life — it’s constructed, choice by choice, habit by habit. That’s why I put together these 60 fresh new lines on building — updated with fresh new lines about building character, careers, families, wealth, and the quiet inner architecture that holds everything up.
I wrote them thinking about the builders I admire: the parents pouring foundations in small daily moments, the friends constructing something from nothing, the late bloomers adding a new floor at forty. Building is slow work, and slow work deserves good words — the kind you come back to when the project gets heavy.
Whether you’re laying your first brick or renovating everything, there’s a line here for your current project. Read them slowly, save the ones that feel like blueprints for your next chapter, and then pick up your tools — let’s build something worth keeping.
Building Quotes
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he’d unified those companies and was ready for expansion – a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
A house isn’t really understandable until it settles into the site: until it’s built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land – how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.
A lot of corporations now have venture arms that are investing in young entrepreneurs or building programs within so you can disrupt yourself internally instead of looking to those external factors.
A lot of my building blocks – who I am kind of as an artist – all came from being in L.A.
A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.
A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.
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.
A turning point in the public’s perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘An Autobiography’ of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn’t the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.
Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they’d probably throw you out. That’s very hard.
Activating is about changing people’s perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you’ve already seen it.
After intensive body building for eight years, I went to the U.S. for training. There, I learnt the art of wrestling. Later, I went to Japan and joined a wrestling group.
After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.
After our successes on ‘H+,’ I’m thrilled to be returning to another digital endeavor with Bryan Singer, Jason Taylor, and the entire Bad Hat Harry team. We’re excited to be building the foundations of our world with Rockzeline and Blackpills.
After spending the 1980s building up Saddam’s Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called ‘containment,’ but the question is, containment of what?
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.
Agricultural workers, together with the working class, constitute the main force in building a powerful socialist country, and the agricultural front is now a major thrust area in building the country into a socialist economic giant.
Alan’s publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that’s where all the publishers were.
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
All my fighters know I’m a fan of theirs. They know I think of them as the stars and that we will facilitate in the building of their stock.
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she’s building any house is, ‘Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?’
All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
Although most of us don’t spend time thinking about our thoughts, increasing your awareness of your thinking habits proves useful in building resilience.
Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a bad grade on your performance.
Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm’s principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.
America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.
American Ballet Theatre’s rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina’s toes.
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An artist has to know who she is and to be consistent in building her career.
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn’t have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn’t afford effects pedals, I didn’t have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it’s uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you’re building, whatever you’re creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.
Anybody can leap off a building.
Anybody that wants to take a picture with me I’m more than happy – I’m excited about it. I’m building that personal connection with the fans and keeping it.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in ‘Post and Beam,’ there is something arresting in a setting… the building behind the Cathedral.
Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
Arsenal remains a big club, but the building of Emirates Stadium changed a lot of things.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there’s going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.
As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.
As a media consultant to Republican presidents, Ailes proved a deft manipulator of racial fear. But it was in building Fox News that he found his calling.
As a Saudi journalist starting my career right after the oil boom of the 1970s, I witnessed the phenomenal growth and expansion of Saudi businesses and the pivotal role the leaders of these firms played in building the modern Saudi economy.
As a society, we haven’t spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
As far as funding and building a team, you being romantically involved with your cofounder really shouldn’t play a factor in how you run the company and how you create a team or find resources. It’s all about the partnership.
Quotes about construction
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
As long as I’m building and doing what I want to do, that’s the only thing that matters.
As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.
As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn’t be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.
As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they’ve brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.
As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.
Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.
Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it’s been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.
At Cheney’s initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
At least 50 times. I’ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I’ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.
At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks’ lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn’t lead to an actual product.
At Rackspace, I’m building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.
At the height of Iraq’s clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
At Unilever, we are committed to building an inclusive organisation where all individuals feel safe, valued, and supported – irrespective of gender, background, or any other difference.
Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature.
Audacity, hope, courage – the Libyans have these in abundance. But all those boring little things – like organization, building a committee – is hard; making decisions and moving ahead is hard.
Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven’t been building up my pension appearing in films like ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ but fantasy has now got a grip on me. I am also appearing in ‘Game of Thrones’ as the head of the House of Lannister.
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn’t be finished until their grandson was born.
Banks are really bad when it comes to building consumer-centred products.
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that’s what you do when you build a house.
Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.
Because I do think – not just in building AOL – but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.
Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to – and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.
Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours.
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it – le mot juste – the exact right word in the exact right position.
Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. You need to figure out what your ideal lifestyle is first.
Being in the European Union, we would be building bridges between the 1.5 bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the E.U.
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He’s a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.
Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities – not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.
Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
Bilaterals are like building blocks for multilaterals.
Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision.
Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of ‘good money.’ As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century’s global economy.
Boat building is intellectual – everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That’s brave.
Britain should be the world’s number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
Building a cast is a card house. They lean on each other, provide for each other, and take from each other.
Building a character – nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else’s life on screen.
Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.
Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you’re doing something that has longevity.
Building a house is like producing a movie. There’s no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared – or it quickly becomes costly.
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.
Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you’re going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.
Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn’t also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?
Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn’t is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.
Building a set is like building a place, but it’s a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.
Building a wall won’t solve our border security challenges.
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn’t achieved without it.
Building cars is highly specialized, it’s hard, and it’s capital intensive.
Building channels for people to believe that the city sees them and hears them and is willing to invest, is going to be critically important, and we have to start that right away.
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It’s a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It’s the same with inspectors.
Building community coalitions with pro-life groups and pro-business groups takes time.
Building design isn’t trendy.
Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.
Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.
Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.
Building human-centered organizations doesn’t imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don’t want to be nannied.
Building mental strength is about regulating your emotions, managing your thoughts, and behaving in a positive manner, despite your circumstances.
Building mental strength is the key to reaching our full potential in life.
Building new nuclear is something that is going to take a lot of commitment, not only from our company but from the communities we serve. It is a five-to-seven-year journey to build one, and they are expensive.
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.
Quotes about buildings and life
Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing – be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app – can create all sorts of complications when things don’t go as planned.
Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
Building robot versions of people is very expensive.
Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.
Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That’s how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we’re talking about.
Building the machine for ‘Speed’ was fun, as was working on the ‘Spitfire’ programme. They are programmes I enjoyed being on, but they are not my job.
Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy.
Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.
Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.
Building upon the world we created with ‘Avatar’ has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that ‘Avatar’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.
Building walls is entirely sensible. We don’t need to do it. We have got the English Channel.
Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it’s achievable; anyone can do it.
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings – at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.
But in Japan, there’s nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn’t have to be.
But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.
By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years’ experience building electronic musical instruments.
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions are important processes in chemistry because they provide key steps in building complex, bio-active molecules developed as medicines and agrochemicals.
Cardio activity burns fat, and when you burn fat while building muscle, you change the ratio of stored fat to lean muscle mass, and your arms appear to be more defined.
CEOs shouldn’t worry about their budget all the time – on a day-to-day basis, they should work on managing their company, building an awesome product, developing key relationships, identifying distribution channels, etc.
Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music.
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.
Character building is one of my favourite things to do.
Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.
Chia Chang, the Washington correspondent for the privately owned Taipei news organization ‘United Daily News,’ was told to leave the ICAO building after producing a Taiwanese passport to ICAO media accreditation officials. Canada recognizes Taiwanese passports. Beijing does not.
Children need to move to develop their brain; it’s a natural urge. That’s why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can’t help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that’s uniquely their own.
China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.
China’s domestic travel is increasing, and that’s why we are building our teams here in China.
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It’s that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.
Clearly, Donald Trump’s victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined to replace the old one.
Clothing is the first step to building a character.
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It’s institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, ‘We’re building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.’
Connecting small and medium-sized businesses to international markets can create work for host country nationals alongside refugees, building economic growth and resilience in host communities.
Consensus building doesn’t necessarily fit with my experience.
Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they always understood that trade policy was merely a tool for building a strong and independent country with a prosperous middle class.
Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.
Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn’t kicking down the door; it’s building your own.
Decades before we were able to articulate the value of ‘getting out of the building’ and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.
Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he’s also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building’s fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won’t inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
Donald Trump – and I don’t dislike Donald one single bit – has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels.
Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.
Don’t spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.
Don’t take shortcuts while building your company – keep trying for the best.
Duct tape is like that. It’s a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it’s even more powerful. It’s like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.
Quotes about buildings and Architecture
During the 1950s, I decided, as did many others, that many practical problems were beyond analytic solution and that simulation techniques were required. At RAND, I participated in the building of large logistics simulation models; at General Electric, I helped build models of manufacturing plants.
During the 2016 election cycle, Trump’s campaign spent at least $791,000 to hold events at 12 Trump-branded venues: three hotels, seven golf courses, a condo building and Mar-a-Lago, federal campaign filings show.
During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.
During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I’m definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.
Building Quotes About Life
Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Edelman diversified into public affairs in the late ’60s with important programs for the Concorde SST, gaining landing rights at JFK Airport in New York, and in the late ’70s generating public approval for the building of the very stark Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C., from a design by the very young architect Maya Lin.
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it’s not having an idea, it’s not being in the right place at the right time. It’s fundamentally company building.
Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.
Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
Even with good maps, there’s no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Every building must have… its own soul.
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Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them are just evolutionary: we’re just building on something that’s like something we’ve done before and just trying to do it a little bit better or make it a little bit more realistic.
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
Every one of my products – my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows – is just me.
Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.
Every phase of building a company is really hard.
Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there.
Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn’t going to fix it.
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn’t really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn’t until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.
Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.
Facebook’s headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company’s fifth home in six years – the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker’s tenant.
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we’re building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don’t believe me – take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
Fashion is an archetype: you’re trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you’re trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you’re using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.
Figuring out how to scale the very human art of personalization is difficult, but I believe that it is also the key to building a lasting connection with customers for the long term.
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
Firefighters go where they’re needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.
Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.
For a ballerina, the center of balance is everything – creating a strong center of balance begins with building strong abdominal muscles.
For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building’s front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change – sharing goods, etc. – but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose’s view, that this has to happen, there’s nothing I can do about it.
For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.
For now I’m building up stories for the retirement home!
For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
For the foreseeable future, I’m all about building blockchain-based decentralized services.
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
For the third generation Unreal Engine, we are building two versions of every model in our game. We are building a source model with several million polygons, between 2 and 6 million polygons. We use that model for all the lighting detail on the mesh. Then we go to the in-game version, which is usually about 10,000 polygons.
For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of ‘Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.’ It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad.
For ‘Breaking Bad,’ our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work… things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.
Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.
Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.
From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, – and to a certain extent with justice.
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.
Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you’re working on.
Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we’re building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it’s a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way – and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things – is one of the best ways to learn.
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God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!
Going forward, we are mindful of the challenges we face in the competitive retail landscape, but we have demonstrated that our concept of building compelling brands that focus on the customers’ lifestyles can produce superior results. We will not waver from that concept.
Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.
Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn’t necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.
Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.
Goldman in the ’80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.
Goldman Sachs isn’t the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it’s still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.
Google is fascinating, and the book isn’t finished. I’m creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.
Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.
Government should support – and benefits from – economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure – not driving the vehicles or the industry – fits.
Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.
Guatemala’s ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.
Haier, a Chinese brand, exemplifies the trend of emerging market companies building brands that are being accepted, if not recognized, by the Western consumer.
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.
He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.
Here are the choices I don’t want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.
Here in the U.K., our government is committed to building a society that works for everyone – not just a privileged few. We must do exactly the same abroad.
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to set auto insurance pricing compounds racial discrimination and exacerbates wealth inequality.
Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or a slow burn, choosing projects carefully, and building an artistic practice over time that feels specific to who they are as artists.
I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.
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I always focus on team building – both in office and at home.
I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.
I always strive to receive the loudest reaction that I can; whether that is being booed out of the building or being cheered.
I always thought Jon Stewart was an extremely good surgeon with his scalpel. He would have Republicans on who, I guess, were unclear about what Stewart was up to, and while Jon Stewart was being nice, he was building a case for drowning them.
I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.
I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.
I am all for greening tall buildings, but I’m also very keen to note that greening a building doesn’t cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.
I am building a foundation in Cameroon, and it’s not just about the sport. The goal of the foundation is not to make a UFC fighter. It’s to help kids believe in their dream, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.
I am excited to join Combate Americas on NBC UNIVERSO, and look forward to building this incredible MMA sports brand and supporting the extremely talented athletes on its growing roster.
I am good at conceptualizing and building institutions.
I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
I am no longer willing to take parts in films and/or television shows which detract from the 50 years I have spent building my reputation.
I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I’ve been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough.
I am very sure of the ground I stand on. I am also very sure that it is the path shared by republicans across this island genuinely interested in building a new agreed Ireland: republicans who put Ireland before ego, criminality, and self-gain.
I appreciate everything that happened in Sacramento. It was character building for me, continuing to go out and play hard. I feel like I progressed as a player.
I avoid my neighbors – luckily, my building has two exits.
I believe building new subways must be a top priority.
I believe in building your foundation – if your foundation is not rich, then you are far from rich.
I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don’t just do one building at a time.
I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.
I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.
I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party or a new movement that can hold the Democratic Party accountable or provide a meaningful alternative.
I busted my butt all my life building companies.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was – and is – a builder in my family.
I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I’d say no. Eventually, I got ‘Godspell.’ It was gently building.
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up – I didn’t have an agent or anything. It was for ‘Chicago.’ There were probably three hundred people there.
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up – I didn’t have an agent or anything.
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.
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.
I collect clothes – they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
I consider the many years I produced ‘Frontline’ documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
I could hardly sit through ‘Frozen.’ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
I didn’t generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.
I didn’t grow up in a small New England town like the one in ‘The Sundial.’ I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won’t let me do. Like they won’t set fire to me. They won’t like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it’s just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I’d say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
I don’t act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don’t transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
I don’t believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
I don’t know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.
I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
I don’t know if it’s genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.
I don’t know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don’t know, who knows? Maybe I’ll start building guitars for a living.
I don’t know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the defense industry.
I don’t read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.
I don’t really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
I don’t remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
I don’t think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you’re lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it’s a miracle if you get paid to do it.
I don’t think countries engage with each other looking at immediate gains. It’s building a partnership.
I don’t think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
I don’t think of competition as much as journalists think I do. Our strategy has been very different from Uber. We are very focused on building as per the Indian dynamics.
I don’t think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
I don’t think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
I don’t think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
I don’t usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren’t yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn’t look great as a model?
I enjoy building more than managing.
I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I’d be a developer of some kind – residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it’s a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation – memory.
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I’m down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.
I first came to Glasgow with no money and slept in a workman’s hut on a building site.
I first considered writing ‘New York’ in 1991. I’d been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn’t sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they’re in the screen.
I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.
I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then I went into a building where you couldn’t see the sky at all. I didn’t like that so much.
I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn’t thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.
I grew up in an artists’ community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I’m not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.
I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don’t necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up – it’s like using presets in your tracks.
I have a bunch of storylines that I could pass to other performers or especially all my knowledge that I have when it comes to building matches, to creating an exciting finish or telling stories in the ring.
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.
I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.
I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I’ve had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
I have great memories of being a Cub, and I’m happy building new ones with the Phillies.
I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.
I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it’s cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.
I have the flying dream a lot where I’m jumping off a building and just flying around.
I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a ‘big tent’ party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
I just bought a building in Los Angeles – on Sunset Boulevard. It’s a building that was owned by Charlie Chaplin. It’s going to be a sound- stage for videos; for full-scale productions.
I just like building stuff.
I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That’s where I belong.
I just really love building chips.
I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.
I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud at a very young age. I was very focused on English and building my vocabulary.
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can’t play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances – bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
I like building.
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don’t know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn’t know who they were.
I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They’re both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I’m always imagining Dick.
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I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I’d get Frank Gehry, just to see what he’d do.
I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn’t been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.
I look at Twitter as brand building.
I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.
I love building companies; I love making products.
I love building out the worlds of my fiction with fictional books.
I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the ’70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I’ve started to really like it.
I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
I love the story behind the Vasa Museum: in the 17th century, the Swedish king was trying to make a statement by building a huge ship that would sail around Europe carrying the Swedish flag and proving that we were a force to be reckoned with, and basically, the ship was top-heavy, and so it went 300 or so yards and sank.
I love to run. When the weather’s bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.
I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.
I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn’t say that it was about the building of characters.
I mean, I always think when you’re an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.
I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That’s what I intend to do.
I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a ‘voice.’ I need to hear a uniqueness in the author’s voice.
I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a tall building. It became a very interesting problem, something that I like very much.
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don’t necessarily like or use.
I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building – I’m not.
I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.
I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. ‘Who authorized this?’ the principal would ask. The answer: ‘Howie Mandel.’
I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
I personally look forward to building the Orion. I believe that our country needs to pursue that technology.
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
I prefer building rather than fundraising.
I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn’t know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, ‘No, it’s going well, come back and finish the gig!’
I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.
I really enjoy the aesthetic of building my fashion sense. I enjoy the process of going through fashion phases.
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft – by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public – that a new art for cities has become real.
I remain dedicated to building an economy that works for every American and every community. I remain committed to ensuring our security at home while also ensuring we lead the world in improving security around the globe.
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It’s just for you.
I say that building peace is like building a cathedral. You have to have a solid base, and then you do it brick by brick. But the process is irreversible. There’s no way back.
I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I’m interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.
I seek a deeper truth, but I don’t think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I’m spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
I spent a lot of time hacking, doing all this stuff, building websites, building communities, working all the time, and then a lot of time drinking, partying, and hanging out. And I had to choose when to do which.
I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.
I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn’t.
I started as kind of an outsider – freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. – so I didn’t have too many relationships holding me back.
I started doing commercials in 2008 right after we released ‘Death Race,’ and the reason was that I spent two years prepping Death Race and building all these custom rigs to shoot cars in the most dynamic and exciting way.
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I’m back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I’d post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.
I still have a dream of one day – I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house – him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.
I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet – a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
I suppose that when I’m building a character, it’s usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up – that nurture side.
I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
I think about museums often. There are things that I want museums to do that they often don’t. For me, I like it when there’s a system within the museum that can continuously change – whether it’s a museum that is nomadic or one that’s designed so the building can shape-shift. I like restless spaces, and I want to be engaged.
I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don’t get in the building anymore.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
I think I ate at the John Hancock building – I loved the view.
I think it’s not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want people to be able to own their flats.
I think most Americans, when we’re building a character, we look at the specificity of what that person is, in particular.
I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors. And that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it’s what can see us forward.
I think that a good portion of the ‘Institutional Left’ hates the building blocks of America.
I think that building political power has to come from the outside and from within. Meaning, we have to build political alternatives to the existing system, and we have to try to impact what is happening in the existing system.
I think that the strategy around FYI is really a corporate strategy, and that’s that every one of our brands that we invest in have to matter and that we need to commit to building brands and investing in those brands, or we need to get out of that business.
I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building.
I think that’s part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the ‘pirate’ mentality, they were building a computer that they wanted to differentiate from IBM and Microsoft.
I think the UFC’s done a great job of building the brand, building the UFC, building MMA.
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It’s very clear to see – it’s fact. We’re not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
I think there’s definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It’s not the building.
I think what we all have to do is make this big leap towards renewables. And it has to be a solution where you’re actually building the answer; and it has to be built faster than the natural gas industry can build their answer.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit – the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
I think ‘Shark Tank’ is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren’t really tech focused. We’re definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already.
I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.
I used to be an obsessive outliner – figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about… jeez, I guess it was when I was doing ‘Christmas Vacation’, so I was about 13 or 14.
I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don’t really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it’s a slippery slope.
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.
I want to have all that scientific information that we’re building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions – and here it’s not just land-use planners, but it’s everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house – can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
I want to record many albums, have a healthy record label with talented artists, keep building my publishing catalogue, and maintain our culture with good music that will be remembered for years to come.
I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.
I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.
I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn’t know what I was doing.
I was a player in the Arena League, I was building relationships with that internship.
I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I’m a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn’t worked out, I’d have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.
I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It’s often that same feeling when you’re pretending for a living, but it’s with bigger toys.
I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.
I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the most incredible theater, and in this church, it was beyond. It was this huge monastery. It was landmarked. It’s a beautiful building, and I kind of had the run of it.
I was at my father’s office, and I’d be in the back of his office, building Lego skyscrapers, as he was negotiating million-dollar deals.
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
I was brought up in a flat in North London – virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.
I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn’t figure out how they’d done it; it was incredible.
I was in the garage fixin’ things, and I’m like, what better project than building your own leg?
I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.
I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator’s Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator’s Bill of Rights – in an issue of ‘The Comics Journal,’ if I’m not mistaken – I accepted it as gospel.
I was just trickling releases out slowly and building the Deadmau5 brand slowly. There was never this big marketing machine behind it or anything like that.
I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys came in and hit me, busted me up and took the radio. After that I was very paranoid and I started taking kung fu and karate. But I didn’t want to fight.
I was not a project manager who was managing and executing the day-to-day operational work of building HealthCare.gov. I didn’t have the kind of comprehensive, detailed, deep knowledge of that project that a manager would have.
I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.
I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.
I was sexually harassed while building Rent the Runway – propositioned, sent sexual text messages, harassed and threatened in person.
I was so fully involved in football and building a career that I didn’t spend nearly enough time with my son when he was growing up.
I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state or district-by-district basis fundamental building blocks that behave in different ways. I was impressed in general with the sophistication of polling.
I was the first reporter in the country to get a U.S. Senator on the air during the 9/11 attacks – I was broadcasting from the Hart Building.
I was very physical as a child – we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.
I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that’s why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
I will continue to practice a martial arts form along with the mental and spiritual aspect that come with building a balanced life, and I will continue to incorporate it into whatever films I can.
I will invest a lot to support handball as well as building a handball stadium.
I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.
I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.
I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I’d spend the rest of my time building.
I wouldn’t build a building if it wasn’t of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
If I don’t have any other strength, I’m pretty good at building relationships.
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I’m interested in doing.
If I had to have my druthers – the best technology, the best cloud… if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support… I would pick the latter.
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that – they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
If I’m the Cavs, I seriously do this: I do a wink-wink deal with LeBron James, give him part ownership of the team. I put a statue in front of the building, and I retire his number. I do all of that.
If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don’t. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
If the sea level rises 6 inches, that’s a big deal… we can’t mitigate that; we can’t stop it. We’ve just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.
If there is one thing for which the ‘Real Housewives’ franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.
If there’s a car company, and you have another car company, you don’t stop building your car and company because there are others.
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
If we’re going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing for everybody.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards.
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won’t crumble.
If you don’t have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you’re told it’s against the law in some cities. It’s definitely a bummer. It’s unfortunate.
If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.
If you look at all the companies I’ve been involved with – Flickr, Etsy, Findery – communities are a significant part of them. Connecting people to each other, user-generated content, building interactions. That’s what I’ve cared about most.
If you sell a physical product, you have a lot of Q4 upside and unpredictability, but now you have to manage your cash to get to Q4 so that you can invest in building inventory to over-perform.
If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga’s games, the WordPress model wouldn’t work well for that.
If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the ’30s – building railways, etc., but when you don’t have that, you must be far more cautious.
If you’re a digital startup, building and highlighting your social proof is the best way for new users to learn about you.
If you’re building a social product, you’re still living in the last century if your product doesn’t work on Facebook.
If you’re in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be convenient for rebels to say, ‘It was the Americans.’
Immigration is not about visa numbers or building a fence. It is about reclaiming our roots as a nation of immigrants and a refuge for those who have been cast aside.
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes – and was no larger than an office building.
In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That’s when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. – artists-in-residence – up on their windows.
In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I’d never even suspected. By 1998, I’d have my Ph.D.
In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.
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.
In a world of serious threats, Britain stands tall, saving lives and building a more prosperous, stable future for all.
In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.
In addition to building the skills needed for the jobs of today and connecting individuals to these jobs, it is imperative to foster entirely new ideas and industries that will create the jobs of tomorrow.
In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There’s a sense that together we’re building something here, and that we’re all a meaningful part of it.
In building a social network, the standards and mores of a community are its lifeblood; one does not lightly ‘experiment’ with these, and LinkedIn is exactly right to defend them.
In fact, building a wall from sea to shining sea would be the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border.
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn’t initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.
In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.
In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.
In my day, MI6 – which I called the Circus in the books – stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn’t even show passes to go in and out of the building.
In order to stay healthy, recover quickly, and continue building strength and agility, I’ve combined different types of low-impact sports circuit exercises to maximize and expand my abilities.
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
In some cases we’ve been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
In the 1920s and 30s, when Radio Shack was young, a much earlier generation of nerds swarmed into these tiny shops to talk excitedly about building radios and other transmission devices. You might say that Radio Shack helped define gadget culture for four generations, from radio whizzes up to smartphone dorks.
In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.
In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls – we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.
In the 21st century, we can’t create security by building walls.
In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.
In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting.
In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.
In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home. The inflationists, on the other hand, stressed the shortage of money capital available to manufacturers as a cause of the crisis.
In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.
In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates – with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program.
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it’s a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
In this case we’re building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.
Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
Iran is not about building nuclear weapons. We don’t wanna build nuclear weapons. We don’t believe that nuclear weapons bring security to anybody, certainly not to us.
Iran’s most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.
Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.
Short Building Quotes
It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn’t know who a project is by.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
It is no fun lining up in your own building – as the hockey players say – and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.
It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That’s how we leave no one behind.
It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don’t share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit – the match between what you’re building and who will buy it.
It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn’t have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There’s enough room in Colorado! But we did.
It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They’d call you up and tell you, ‘Hey, jump off this building!’ and they’d give you a hundred bucks, and you’d do it.
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
It’s a physical thing that can grab a hold of data and literally rearrange our lives by changing the direction you take your car in. This continuum is going to keep building on itself as we move forward into the future.
It’s actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It’s a matter of carving away what doesn’t fit rather than building up from nothing.
It’s an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
It’s an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
It’s certainly not just a spot opinion; it’s something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.
It’s easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.
It’s exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.
It’s hard to improve our schools. It’s hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing.
It’s hard to make something as large as a government change. It’s a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
It’s hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
It’s important for people who criticise architects – whether what they build is or isn’t to your taste – to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.
It’s just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I’ve been there.
It’s just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.
It’s not about an opening weekend. It’s about a career, building a set of films you’re proud of. Period.
It’s not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women’s bathroom.
It’s such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
It’s such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.
It’s the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.
It’s time to focus all of our efforts on renewables. We will oppose the building of LNG facilities.
It’s your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You’re exposed, like dreaming you’re naked in a public building.
I’d hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there’s 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.
I’d like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I’d like to know how to do it.
I’d like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I’d need building up, though he’s very frail now.
I’d love to be part of the process of building cars.
I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
I’ll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It’s as if I’m reverse-scoring the track and building visuals around a specific beat or riff that’s grabbed me.
I’m 30. I’m about to hit my prime now. I need to act and keep building.
I’m a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
I’m all about building a relationship with viewers and getting to know them.
I’m already used to being a target, so I’m building a castle with the stones people throw at me.
I’m always investing and building things at the same time.
I’m an actor. It’s like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I’m building a little wall, and the next time I’m building a palace.
I’m building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.
I’m building a large company.
I’m building an anarchistic society from the ground up.
I’m building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.
I’m building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
I’m coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
I’m excited about working with Mark Hughes and building a good relationship with him.
I’m finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
I’m from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y’all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I’m from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.
I’m going to be an advocate to ensure that we are protecting everyone, and we’re tearing down barriers and not building barriers.
I’m going to set up a foundation for the world. I’m going to take the money and start building cities all over the world. I’m a comet.
I’m in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.
I’m interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll’s house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I’ve never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.
I’m interested in the human more than I’m interested in building suspense.
I’m just focusing on ‘Let’s Stay Together’ and slowly building my production company. I’m trying to get into writing as well.
I’m just interested in building a company that doesn’t necessarily change lives but adapts people’s behaviour.
I’m looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I’m building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
I’m not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
I’m outraged that we’re building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we’re doing it with borrowed money from China that we’re paying interest on. I’m outraged.
I’m particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief… in free and open trade.
I’m really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.
I’m really only interested in building this intellectual movement. The I.D.W. has bigger goals than anyone’s buzz or celebrity.
I’m really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.
I’m the kind of guy who, if you tell me you can’t do something, like, ‘Brian, you can’t do a backflip off that two-floor building,’ and I’m going to give it a shot.
I’m thrilled to share the story of my journey in building Eventbrite and what I’ve learned along the way as a working mother and entrepreneur.
I’m very optimistic about the future. I’m just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
I’ve actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I’m 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that’s how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
I’ve always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.
I’ve always done party building and party fundraising.
I’ve always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed… as long as he’s willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens.
I’ve been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught – from building homes for the poor in Nicaragua to landing prime White House internships.
I’ve been building a future for myself outside of acting.
I’ve been building slow, step by step.
I’ve been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
I’ve been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn’t until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
I’ve been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we’ve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
I’ve been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I’ve been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.
I’ve been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.
I’ve been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.
I’ve died so many times. I’m 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I’ve died a lot of times!
I’ve gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it’s not a problem. It just means something’s building inside you, and it’ll build and it’ll build, and at some point it’ll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.
I’ve gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it’s straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
I’ve had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
I’ve made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland’s roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.
I’ve never eaten eggs or taken muscle building supplements. I eat less and work out more.
I’ve never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
I’ve never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers’ money.
I’ve said all along that we’re building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future.
I’ve spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.
I’ve worked as a singer in metal bands for over ten years now, so I’ve definitely kind of put in my time building that underground family, that underground, loyal fan base.
Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
Just as playgrounds didn’t even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn’t mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
Just like you have fire regulations, they should have regulations that no building would be made without charging points for electric vehicles.
Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.
Kickstarter can get customers invested, both literally and figuratively, in a game before it is released. With nothing but an idea, a bit of video and a few screenshots, a developer can start building a loyal fan base.
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don’t even use that term any more.
Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and beyond everything.
Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up – developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Living in New York after 14 years, I’m such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.
Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.
Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can’t help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei’s Bank of China Tower.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
Marciano was an idol in a simpler era, when professional athletes were heroes and sportswriters were complicit in building legends rather than exposing them. To the public, all that really mattered was that Rocky had 49 wins in 49 fights and retired in 1956 as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world.
Martial arts is not about fighting; it’s about building character.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Miles Flannery – he’s a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He’s one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short.
Momentum is building for the creation of a shared future, one that is more egalitarian, inclusive, and respectful of the environment – a future that ultimately offers greater possibilities for personal development and control over our individual lives.
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It’s the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.
Moving forward, I will be committed to building a stronger team so that the GOP can compete and win statewide in 2018, including the possibility of being a candidate in that cycle.
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district.
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works – it’s all the same stuff; it’s just different aesthetics that we’re talking about.
My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we’re going to build a smart machine, let’s have it read good books.
My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents’ courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
My commitment is that Crown Sydney won’t be just another hotel: it will be a landmark building for Sydney with a design and quality that the city deserves.
My confidence has been really building since my time at Espanyol.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. – my hometown – right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.
My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs – basically, the matches that went all over the building.
My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.
My DNA is building a product and a service.
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.
My father’s legacy is bigger than a building. It really is a tremendous business that he’s built.
My favorite off-mountain workout is the long run. It’s great for building endurance and strength.
My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that’s what we’re doing with SumZero.
My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line.
My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It’s like a commune – everyone gets on – and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.
My freshman year in college, I got a job working security. This was a high-tech building in Santa Clara, engineers coming in and out all the time.
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
My goal in life was to serve my people, and the most important service for the Jewish people is building the land, and the basics of building the people and the country is working the land.
My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.
My heart is really in building coalitions.
My heart really lies in my jewelry line, Archangel. I have really enjoyed watching the company go from nothing and slowly building it year by year, and getting into one store, then another store. And then I’ll see someone wearing a piece of it on the streets, and it’s all very exciting.
My husband and I are building a ‘green’ house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we’re going to build a house that’s green from the ground up.
My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so there’s a cubic volume of color in the intersection wedged between four corners and four buildings.
My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.
My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the ‘New York Times’ Building.
My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma’s retirement building and perform ‘Phantom of the Opera.’
My style is about making things last forever. When you’re on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
My work more than didn’t fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
Nathaniel Rich wrote ‘Odds Against Tomorrow’ well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.
Netanyahu supports – and he truly does support – building a Palestinian state within Israel.
Networking is an essential part of building wealth.
Networking technology is at the heart of the Internet, connecting devices and local networks with the global public Internet. Planning, designing, building, managing, and supporting IP networks all require dedicated networking skills.
New York is very career-orientated and it’s hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.
Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks.
No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.
No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It’s brutally difficult.
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
Now I don’t work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.
Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.
Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they’re the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It’s really not good business. It’s nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.
Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.
Now, when building a show, I ask myself the question – like, ‘Jumping off this table will be really cool, but can I do that eight times a week?’.
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.
Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It’s the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There’s something pretty inequitable there.
Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does bring an incredible, palpable excitement and emotion into the building.
Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.
Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn’t manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.
Often, entrepreneurs don’t build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who – as a board member – can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.
Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.
Omidyar Network first supported Africa Check in 2014 when they were a team of just three dedicated people intent on building a more fact-based environment for public debate in South Africa.
On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime’s largest torture facilities.
On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.
On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.
Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for.
Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.
One great building does not make a great city.
Fresh Building Quotes
“You’re not just living your life — you’re building it, one choice at a time.” — Unknown
“Strong lives are built on boring foundations: sleep, honesty, and showing up.” — Unknown
“Build your character in private, and your reputation will take care of itself in public.” — Unknown
“Every dream is a construction site. Hard hats required.” — Unknown
“Don’t envy the finished building — respect the foundation nobody saw being poured.” — Unknown
“Build slowly. Skyscrapers and sandcastles both start with a single handful.” — Unknown
“The best thing you can build is a life you don’t need a vacation from.” — Unknown
“Build your mornings and your mornings will build your life.” — Unknown
“A strong foundation is invisible — that’s what makes it strong.” — Unknown
“Stop decorating the walls and start reinforcing the beams.” — Unknown
“Build bridges, not walls — but keep the blueprints for the walls just in case.” — Unknown
“Your habits are the bricks. Your days are the mortar.” — Unknown
“Great builders measure twice. Great lives reflect twice.” — Unknown
“Build a life with wide doors — you’ll be surprised who walks in.” — Unknown
“The foundation of trust is poured one kept promise at a time.” — Unknown
“Build your body like you’ll live in it for eighty years — because you will.” — Unknown
“Every ‘no’ is a brick in the wall that protects your ‘yes.'” — Unknown
“Don’t build your house on someone else’s opinion of you.” — Unknown
“Build wealth the boring way: earn, save, repeat. Boring works.” — Unknown
“A family is built in the small hours — bedtime stories, shared meals, held hands.” — Unknown
“Build your skills before you need them. The job always arrives early.” — Unknown
“Tear down the wall between ‘someday’ and ‘today.’ It’s thinner than you think.” — Unknown
“Build a routine so strong that motivation becomes optional.” — Unknown
“The strongest structures flex in the wind. Build some bend into your plans.” — Unknown
“Build your friendships before the storm, not during it.” — Unknown
“Every expert was once an apprentice holding the wrong end of the hammer.” — Unknown
“Build in public if you can — people love watching a good construction.” — Unknown
“Your reputation is built in drops and lost in buckets.” — Unknown
“Build a home, not just a house — the difference is who feels welcome.” — Unknown
“The blueprint matters less than the building. Start.” — Unknown
“Build your confidence the way masons build walls — course by course.” — Unknown
“Don’t build a bigger life. Build a deeper one.” — Unknown
“A career is built one trusted relationship at a time.” — Unknown
“Build your savings like a dam — small leaks sink big plans.” — Unknown
“The best architects of a good life are the ones who keep revising the plans.” — Unknown
“Build your inner life first — the outer one follows the blueprint.” — Unknown
“Every wall you build around your heart needs a door. Don’t forget the door.” — Unknown
“Build momentum, not perfection. Momentum forgives mistakes.” — Unknown
“A legacy is just a building other people get to live in.” — Unknown
“Build your days around what matters, or they’ll be built around what doesn’t.” — Unknown
“Strong teams are built on trust, and trust is built on kept small promises.” — Unknown
“Build a garden, a business, a friendship — anything that grows is worth the work.” — Unknown
“The foundation you pour in your twenties holds the house of your forties.” — Unknown
“Build slowly enough to enjoy the view from each floor.” — Unknown
“Don’t wait for perfect materials. Build with what you have, where you are.” — Unknown
“A good name is built letter by letter, over years.” — Unknown
“Build your circle from people who hand you bricks, not throw them.” — Unknown
“The scaffolding is temporary. The structure is forever — build accordingly.” — Unknown
“Build your peace the way you’d build a house — on rock, not sand.” — Unknown
“Every brick you lay in someone else’s life builds a room in yours.” — Unknown
“Build a life that’s sturdy on the inside, not just pretty from the street.” — Unknown
“The best time to build was years ago. The second best time is this morning.” — Unknown
“Build your dreams with daylight hours — night is for resting the crew.” — Unknown
“A wise builder inspects the foundation before adding another floor.” — Unknown
“Build something that outlasts your bad days.” — Unknown
“Your life is under construction — expect noise, dust, and beautiful progress.” — Unknown
“Build the habit first; the results are just the building catching up.” — Unknown
“Great things are built by people who showed up on the boring days too.” — Unknown
“Build a table long enough for everyone you love.” — Unknown
“Keep building. The finished version of you is worth the construction.” — Unknown
Frequently Asked Questions About Building Quotes
What are building quotes?
They’re metaphor-rich lines about constructing a good life — building character, habits, careers, families, and wealth. The construction metaphor makes abstract self-improvement feel concrete and doable, brick by brick. Instead of vague advice like “improve yourself,” you get images you can actually picture: foundations, blueprints, scaffolding, cornerstones.
Why is “building” such a popular metaphor in quotes?
Because everyone understands construction: foundations come before walls, the work is slow and steady, and there are no real shortcuts. It turns self-improvement from a fuzzy wish into a project with visible progress. Picture beats abstract every time — and “build” language gives every small habit the dignity of real craftsmanship.
Can I use building quotes for a business or team?
Yes — they’re favorites for company values, team meetings, and leadership talks. “Build” language resonates in construction, real estate, startups, and any team working toward something long-term. A shared building quote on the office wall does quiet work: it reminds everyone they’re part of something being constructed, not just maintained.
Are building quotes good for new homeowners or DIY projects?
Perfect for them. Housewarmings, renovation projects, and first-home milestones all pair beautifully with building quotes — they work as greeting cards, social captions, and even framed prints for the new place. A building quote in a housewarming card says “I’m proud of what you’re creating here” better than generic congratulations.
What makes a good building quote?
Specificity. The best ones name the material — habits as bricks, trust as foundation, promises as mortar, routines as scaffolding. Concrete images make the metaphor land instead of floating away. If you can picture the construction while you read it, the quote is doing its job.
Can building quotes be used as Instagram captions?
Absolutely. They’re strong, forward-looking, and pair naturally with construction photos, renovation progress shots, and skyline imagery. Short builder lines also work well for LinkedIn and professional posts, where they read as grounded ambition rather than hype. Pick the quote that matches your actual project — authenticity is what earns the engagement.
Every builder started with an empty lot and a first brick — you’re further along than you think. Save the line that matches your current project, share it with someone building alongside you, and bookmark this page for the days the construction feels slow. More blueprints for a good life are waiting at inspirational quotes and motivational quotes whenever you’re ready — keep laying bricks, one honest day at a time.