Build Something Quotes

#1. Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Brian Chesky

#2. It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!

George M. Gilbert

#4. Or else I may do something I'm pretty sure you'll hate me for in the mornin'." The low huskiness of his voice washed over her like a heated caress, sending shivers down her spine, and obliterating whatever defenses she'd manage to build against him.

J.M. Stewart

#5. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

Frank Gehry

#6. The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

Edward Kitsis

#7. My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

Harry West

#8. Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

Seth Shostak

#9. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.

Harvey MacKay

#10. But there is something delusional nonetheless in his optimistic certainty that human beings will wish to choose altruistic values without invoking transcendent principles. They may do so; but they may also wish to build death camps, and may very well choose to do that instead. For

David Bentley Hart

#11. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

Ryan Holmes

#12. You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

Rodney Mullen

#13. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

A.J. Cronin

#14. You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

Seth Godin

#15. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.

Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.

Nova Ren Suma

#16. At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

George Hickenlooper

#17. I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.

Kelli O'Hara

#18. How have you been?" my father asked.
Say something diplomatic ... something ... "If you build a tower in Lawrenceville, I will smash it, set it on fire, and salt the ground it stood on.

Ilona Andrews

#19. Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.

Anousheh Ansari

#20. You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

Elizabeth Hand

#21. I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.

Gianni Versace

#22. I am going to build something big for you.

Andrew Smith

#23. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.

Irvin D. Yalom

#24. It's almost sad that it's something that's just associated with stripping or because someone is slutty. That's really not it. It's actually a really great way to get a work-out and to build upper body strength and to have fan.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#25. When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.

Gary W. Keller

#26. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

Jason Fried

#27. I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

Natalie Maines

#28. Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

Richard Rogers

#29. Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

Alexandra Stoddard

#30. To build something, you need sirious people. There aren't any such, or my luck is that I don't find them!

Deyth Banger

#31. Humans are born to build something outrageous.

Kumar

#32. Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.

Renee Fredrickson

#33. When life puts rocks in your way, build something nice with them.

Volksweisheit

#34. The sadist in him loved knowing that he'd used her for his pleasure, while also expressing his disappointment in her, whereas, the man who wanted to build something with her felt remorse that he'd left her hanging last night in more ways than one.

Josie Leigh

#35. Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Daniel Quinn

#36. Respect isn't something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It's something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated

Lena Dunham

#37. I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."
"To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

Rick Riordan

#38. When I act politely, I build a reserve of goodwill in others. That reserve allows those people to cut me some slack when I do something annoying.

John Elder Robison

#39. Botkin cannot build house from such little twigs!" he shouted at me, giving my upper arm a squeeze. "Eat something!

Leigh Bardugo

#40. I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

Seymour Papert

#41. Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

Yelawolf

#42. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.

Walt Disney

#43. For 'The Terminator,' I was asked to drop a bit of weight to get less physically imposing because it wasn't about an athletic build; the build they were looking for was something more unassuming or boyish. And it was tough!

Jai Courtney

#44. We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

Diane Ackerman

#45. 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.

Penny Pritzker

#46. If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

Dennis Crowley

#47. Build something with enduring value.

Bill Hybels

#48. I've ... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.

Paul Baran

#49. My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.

Sue Townsend

#50. That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.

Mary Gauthier

#51. Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Paul Gauguin

#52. Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].

Alicia Keys

#53. Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

Osman Rashid

#54. The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

Michel Gondry

#55. I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

James Bobin

#56. Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Howard Shore

#57. There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Richard Rainwater

#58. I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

Scott Eastwood

#59. For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.

Bing Gordon

#60. Florence saw childhood as something fleeting to be enjoyed. I saw childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for the future.

Amy Chua

#61. One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with them, a year later that might yield something much more powerful.

Sarah Stillman

#62. Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

Romano Prodi

#63. The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

Trey Gowdy

#64. Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.

Rick Riordan

#65. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying?

Elizabeth Adeniyi

#66. 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.

Jamie Lawson

#67. Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

Marc Benioff

#68. The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

Henry Markram

#69. I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Kris Jenner

#70. To build we must break. I was listening.

I know you can break. I need to see that you can build. I need to see what you will build. If the blood we will shed is for something.

Pierce Brown

#71. A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

Pierre Trudeau

#72. Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.

Zig Ziglar

#73. You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.

Erich Kastner

#74. For 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

Jodi Picoult

#75. Just because you can build a machine that is better than a person at something doesn't mean that it is going to have the ability to learn new domains or connect different types of information or context to do superhuman things. This is critically important to appreciate.

Mark Zuckerberg

#76. If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build something that is secure against technology in the next century that you cannot even imagine.

Whitfield Diffie

#77. We found people who could build something for us, but we didn't have the budget to invest many thousands before the business even started.

Dale Reardon

#78. Therefore, any attempt to build community on something more than the grace of Christ becomes a subtle move away from grace, a move toward pseudo-community that only puffs up and fails to transform.

Matt Chandler

#79. Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

Dennis Crowley

#80. There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

Norm Coleman

#81. I'm not much of a fly tier. I can do it - my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying' - and I tie some cool flies that I can't buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

Jack Ohman

#82. If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

Jonathan Culver

#83. When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

Alan Lee

#84. I fully acknowledge that it is easier to knock something down than to build it in the first place. But

Michael Connelly

#85. The foundational skills of snowboarding are what pay off in the long run. That's something I've been able to build over time and that's benefited me a lot. With my age and looking at my career, perhaps I'm more comfortable in my own skin than I've ever been.

Kelly Clark

#86. Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make an ocean of them now when it's over? The future you dreamed is a dream. Dream something else.

Stephanie Roberts

#87. Beau, what is it you want?"
"A porch," he says softly. He says it like it's my name, and right then, I think, what both of us want more than anything is something we can never have. "All I really want is to build a house with a nice, big porch that gets used every day.

Emily Henry

#88. I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

Rachel Bilson

#89. I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something ... set yourself on something ... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

Stephen King

#90. I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.

Jack O'Neill

#91. If something is built to show, it's build to grow.

Jonah Berger

#92. When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

Yo-Yo Ma

#93. A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Peter F. Drucker

#94. Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Ian Hacking

#95. There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Randy Pausch

#96. Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

Lloyd Dorfman

#97. I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Michael Birch

#98. These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness
unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

Maureen Johnson

#99. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you. ... You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life.

Anonymous

#100. Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

Henry Ford