Top 100 Building New Quotes
#1. Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack Obama
#2. Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
Darell Hammond
#4. Maybe forgiveness was giving the past less power to hurt me. Or even building new memories that were stronger than the painful ones.
Courtney C. Stevens
#5. To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.
William J. Clinton
#6. 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.
Jamshyd Godrej
#7. I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.
Daniel H. Wilson
#9. Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.
Amity Shlaes
#10. We'd better get there soon," said Corwin. "They're probably building new streets in Paris right this minute."
"What if I don't want to, being a lesbian?"
Corwin fell silent; after a while he spoke.
"So you think it might be permanent?
Louise Erdrich
#11. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.
[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]
John F. Kennedy
#12. I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.
Ryne Sandberg
#13. Small talk is incredibly important when building new relationships and is necessary to do when networking, provided it is not small minded...
Small talk helps to provide a bridge from saying "hello" to the substantive part of the conversation.
Timothy M. Houston
#14. About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.
Richard Branson
#15. Annual state spending alone for prison facilities is now estimated at about $52 to $62 billion, the bulk of which is spent building new facilities; operating and maintaining more prisons; providing food and health care for prisoners; and administration and staff salaries and benefits.
Christopher Zoukis
#16. Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.
Aidan Chambers
#17. The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.
Jack Dorsey
#18. Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.
Danah Boyd
#19. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine. Because most people are good. Right?
Daniel H. Wilson
#20. The codebase turned out to be almost 3 times the size of the web version, with most of the code being new. While building the app, I found many ways to improve and streamline the code and the interface.
Anonymous
#21. Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place.
Liz Hester
#22. Ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.
Daniel Coyle
#23. New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'
Bill Maher
#25. Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.
Joseph Jarman
#26. How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?
John Allen Paulos
#27. 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.
Billy Tauzin
#28. Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.
Bryan Appleyard
#29. Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which disagrees with our memories
a new building here, a change in paint there
is forever jarring and anachronistic.
Daniel D. Victor
#30. They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
Emil Ruder
#31. If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.
Evelyn Waugh
#32. Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.
Steve Case
#33. When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.
John Henry Holland
#34. In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit.
Isser Harel
#35. They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#36. One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.
Alice Morse Earle
#37. My life finds a new beginning in which I try and engulf my family...I am struggling to building it. Will it blow away again like dust??
Anchal Duggal
#38. the new form of marketing is leadership, and leadership is about building and connecting tribes of like-minded people.
Seth Godin
#40. I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin
#41. We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.
Joe Lieberman
#42. Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.
Kevin Rudd
#43. Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye
Gottfried Bohm
#44. 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.
Dan Aykroyd
#45. WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence
Steven Biko
#46. you really need to think about your game as a service where you will launch the game as early as is feasible and you will steadily iterate new releases while simultaneously building a loyal audience. This is much more akin to running a subscription business
Anonymous
#47. The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
Theodore Zeldin
#48. There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
Jeffrey Kluger
#49. In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
Jeff Bezos
#50. Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.
Joseph Alleine
#51. We still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.
Richard Hell
#52. There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
John Bolton
#53. The original meaning of dilapidate (from the Latin dilapidare, to squander) was to allow a building to fall into a state of disrepair. In New York dilapidators are simply known as landlords. also
Ammon Shea
#54. I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
Robert Frost
#55. Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.
Marco Arment
#56. Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.
Heidi
#57. In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
Edwin Land
#58. 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.
Adam Davidson
#59. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.
Gordon Livingston
#60. In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private developers responded to the lack of planned centers, public space, and public facilities in suburbs by building malls, office parks, and industrial parks as well as fast-food restaurants and motels.
Dolores Hayden
#61. I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'
Jimmy Fallon
#62. 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.
Victor LaValle
#63. I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.
Erica Lorraine Scheidt
#64. No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.
Henry Parry Liddon
#65. There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.
Howard Schultz
#66. 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.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#67. Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.
Eckhart Tolle
#68. Why not a new village of farmers, citizens of the world through schools and radio and space-consuming transportation, grouped together in friendly sociability, building directly upon the soil?
Angie Debo
#70. It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
Dale Earnhardt
#71. 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.
Marc Andreessen
#72. Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.
Nelson Mandela
#73. Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were all in the same building.
Aimee Bender
#74. 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.
Paige Butcher
#75. People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.
Meg Whitman
#76. The building had been sold and the new owners wanted to convert it into high-end condos. Oh, please. Chicago needed more high-end condos like they needed another baseball franchise.
Kelly Moran
#77. 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.
Amity Shlaes
#78. I have no idea what to expect I have no idea what my life will be like in this new place and I'm being nailed in the stomach by every exquisite embellishment, every lavish accessory, every superfluous painting, molding, lighting, coloring of this building. I hope the whole thing catches fire.
Tahereh Mafi
#79. We are placed here in this world to manage a project that is equivalent to building a new universe every day. Creating yourself is not just a full-time job, it is a staggering one.
Deepak Chopra
#80. When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
Lauren Groff
#81. One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.
Richard Rogers
#82. I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.
Biz Stone
#83. When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?
Fay Wray
#84. All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
Robert Kennedy
#85. You alright?' Frey asked him. Crake gave him an accusing glare. 'I thought I'd given up all dignity long ago when I joined this crew,' he said. 'But this? This is a new low, Frey.'
'It's character-building,' said Frey.
Chris Wooding
#86. Hate isn't the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn't free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you've created a new person, a new life that you can live with.
Rasmenia Massoud
#87. One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.
Richard Branson
#88. I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.
Mitch Lasky
#89. If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.
Matt Mullenweg
#90. Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.
Rory McIlroy
#91. New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time
Gottfried Bohm
#92. Awakening is not a process of building ourselves up but a process of letting go. It's a process of relaxing in the middle - the paradoxical, ambiguous middle, full of potential, full of new ways of thinking and seeing - with absolutely no money-back guarantee of what will happen next.
Pema Chodron
#93. Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.
Jesse L. Martin
#94. Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
John Ashbery
#95. Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
Carly Fiorina
#96. Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#97. Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of cheap-ass despair? It's not? Whew.
Sarah Vowell
#98. I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.
Natalie Portman
#99. It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan Paton
#100. I've always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it.
Harry Mathews
