Top 100 Build It Quotes
#1. Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
Urs Fischer
#2. It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?
Richard Flanagan
#3. Build it all up, and it all falls down. It all burns down. Everything you need can be taken. Remember that, nieces. Everything you hold dear, it can be taken.
Joseph Boyden
#4. Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.
Felix O. Hartmann
#5. All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.
Luke Montgomery
#6. Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Whatever the future holds, we'll face it together, Jack. Our job is not to predict the future, but rather to build it.
Matt Myklusch
#8. Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
Leo Buscaglia
#9. It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine.
Rashers Tierney
#10. We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
Henry Taylor
#12. The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.
Paul Vixie
#13. Build it and they shall come, write it and they shall read .(me), but not the first bit though.
Karl Coates
#14. Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.
Craig Venter
#15. If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
Jim McKelvey
#16. The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
Barbara Deming
#17. And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
Elizabeth Warren
#18. Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
Marco Rubio
#19. If you are just, then your works too are just.We ought not to think of building holiness upon action; we ought to build it upon a way of being, for it is not what we do that makes us holy, but we ought to make holy what we do.
Richard J. Woods
#20. I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don't build it top to bottom with a specific vision.
Tony Fadell
#21. You cannot buy trust at any price. But slowly, over time, you can build it for free.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#22. It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
Andrew Ryan
#23. The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
Alan Kay
#24. Building companies rules of the game have all changed today. It used to cost millions of dollars to do anything substantial. You'd get VC backing & then you'd hire the team to build it. Now it's deploy or die.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#25. Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#26. I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.
Ray Ozzie
#27. You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard winters, and the assaults of time.
Rick Bass
#28. Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.
Richard Branson
#29. We must see the new Nigeria The Nigeria We Want we must accept personal responsibility to build it
Fela Durotoye
#30. I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.
Ben McLemore
#31. Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it?
Ivan Glasenberg
#32. While edifying ourselves, we put our life in order and build it
Sunday Adelaja
#33. A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
Jan Carlzon
#34. A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it's going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can't be sure it won't.
L. William Seidman
#36. A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.
Andre Agassi
#37. most prototypes are built to answer questions such as, "Can we build it?" or "Will it work as expected?" instead of focusing on questions such as "Should we build it at all?" or "If we build it, will people buy it and use it?
Alberto Savoia
#38. So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
Barry McGuire
#39. Love doesn't happen because you find the right bricks and cement to build it. Love really is...pure magic. It comes from" - she gestured toward the heavens - "out there. And if falls like pixie dust where it wants. And when id does...you can fly."
(Rosemary)
Dan Skinner
#40. The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.
Nina Jacobson
#41. You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
Michel Faber
#42. In this brave new digital world, reality is plastic, and your identity is whatever you wish it to be. As is your future: Wish it, build it, live it.
Dean Koontz
#43. The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
Anthony Foxx
#44. When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.
Donald Trump
#45. With Harley, you build it, then you've got to take it apart.
Noah Hathaway
#46. Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
Eric Schmidt
#47. There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can't build it back up overnight.
Gordon Bethune
#48. In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.
Ferdinand Porsche
#49. Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.
James Anthony Froude
#50. I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.
Jayne Mansfield
#51. The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine
Charles Hard Townes
#52. Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won't feel like work. It's okay to drop out of college if you have an awesome idea.
Kevin Rose
#53. I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.
Martin Scorsese
#54. Orlando. Tourism on steroids. Florida's mutant chromosome with mouse ears. One of the newer attractions is an air-conditioned dome over a sprawling, man-made replica of the state's natural landscape. They bulldozed nature to build it.
Tim Dorsey
#55. When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
Marc Andreesen
#56. One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#57. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
Mother Teresa
#58. How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.
Elizabeth Warren
#59. Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.
Dean Cavanagh
#60. There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the most effective way to structure a speech is to build it around a single significant thought.
Keith Willhite
#61. I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.
Lincoln Michel
#62. You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
Walt Disney
#63. Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.
D.H. Lawrence
#64. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.
Anonymous
#65. Look for good in men, and where they fail to posses it, try to build it up in them; try to increase the good in them; look for the good; build up the good; sustain the good; and speak as little about the evil as you possibly can.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#66. The deeper message that is resonating with people is that it is possible to build. It is possible to invest in people; it is possible to invest in green infrastructure; it's possible to change.
Naomi Klein
#67. I need to write faster, but I make no promises. I found out long ago that when you look at the overall task, the cathedral you have to build, it looks so daunting that you just give up and sit down and play a video game.
George R R Martin
#68. Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.
Roelof Botha
#69. Build it and they will come' is one of the most idiotic ideas conceived by man.
B.C. Chase
#70. What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'
Michael Moore
#71. Foreign Cash is not the answers to our problems, my friend. Africa needs the hearts and minds of its sons and daughters to nurture it. You were our pride, Mukoma Bryon. When you did not return, a whole village lost its investment. Africa is all that we have. If we do not build it, no one else will.
J. Nozipo Maraire
#72. Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
Isaac Hayes
#73. O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.
James Taylor
#74. So I chose one, and Harry kept the other ... we have been living happily ever after, building the room that is our love, our home, inside our hearts from that day to this.
We build it, still, for as long as we draw breath.
Cameron Dokey
#75. Productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon. So
Tim Challies
#76. I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.
William Golding
#77. I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.
Eddie Izzard
#78. When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
Renzo Piano
#79. I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.
Baratunde Thurston
#80. The funny thing about armor is that it doesn't just keep other people out. It keeps us in. We build it up around us, not realizing that we're trapping ourselves.
Victoria Schwab
#82. At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
Kim Cattrall
#83. I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
Paddy Considine
#84. You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.
Lanza Del Vasto
#85. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make that happen, and it's harder than it looks.
Peter Thiel
#86. If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.
Chris Powell
#87. We will continue to march, even if everything shatters, because today Germany hears us, and tomorrow, the whole world. And because of the Great War, the world lies in ruins, but devil may care, we build it up again.
Rhidian Brook
#88. If you can build it, you can unbuild it
Jake Pitts
#89. The only thing I do to my bat is put some tape around the handle to build it up a little bit because I broke my finger about six years ago and can't really close it the way I want to. Other than that, the same bat, same Louisville Sluggers.
Tony Gwynn
#90. Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
Seth Godin
#91. You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
Elizabeth Edwards
#92. By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it.
James P Hackett
#93. I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
Kevin A. Ford
#94. Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#95. The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
John Ensign
#96. We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.
Jimmy Sangster
#97. If no one consumes these products, people will stop producing them. They will not build it if you don't come.
William J. Clinton
#98. You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process you will figure out who you really are - and you just might become the very best version of yourself.
Sheryl Sandberg
#99. The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.
Henry Markram
#100. It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'
Brad Goreski
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