Building Something Quotes

#1. I shouldn't need to explain why building something without any structure is a bad idea.

Anonymous

#2. 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

#3. I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

Michelle Dockery

#4. If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

Sundar Pichai

#5. My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg

#6. Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

Aaron Levie

#7. What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?

Jason Fried

#8. I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

Elia Kazan

#9. He held his hand to my heart again and bumped the tip of his nose against mine. Can you feel what we're doing here? We're building something.

Kylie Scott

#10. What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

Josh Lucas

#11. In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

Sam Altman

#12. Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

#14. Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.

Mike Krieger

#15. Willy: I am building something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn't he?
Ben: What are you building? Lay your hand on it. where is it?
Willy [hesitantly]: That's true, Linda, there's nothing.

Arthur Miller

#16. I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

Wayne Huizenga

#17. Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos ... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.

Tony Hsieh

#18. So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Gunther Schuller

#19. Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

Donald Judd

#21. Skillful pitching ... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?

Guy Kawasaki

#22. Joy is designing and building something that actually sees the light of day and is enjoyably used and widely adopted by the people for whom it was intended.

Richard Sheridan

#23. For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal ... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

Umberto Guidoni

#24. The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.

Walt Disney

#25. I thought we were building something special, that we were well suited. I am surprised to find that you don't feel the same.

Genna Rulon

#26. If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Sam Altman

#27. 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.

Thomas Mars

#28. Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something.

David Sedaris

#29. The bureaucrats had gotten into a habit of solving every medical problem by building something so that a congressman could say, 'Here's what I did!' It didn't make any sense, but everybody did the same thing again and again.

Charles Duhigg

#30. It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.

Richard P. Gabriel

#31. But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

Ted Strickland

#32. What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

Eric Ries

#33. What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

Bre Pettis

#34. One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

Kathryn Minshew

#35. I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.

Neil Gaiman

#36. When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs ...

Nolan Bushnell

#37. Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

Vicki Lawrence

#38. I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.

Ryan Adams

#39. This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

Jack White

#40. I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.

Harvey Mason Jr.

#41. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#42. Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

Matt Taibbi

#43. 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

#44. But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Wim Wenders

#45. I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.

Jenny Slate

#46. 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

#47. And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

Minoru Yamasaki

#48. Every moment, every day, we are all making something -- whether it's science or art, a relationship to a destiny -- building it choice by choice, moment by moment.

Claudia Gray

#49. Once you have built something - something that takes all your passion and will - it becomes more precious to you than your own happiness. You don't realise that, while you are building it. That you are creating a martyrdom - something which, later, will make you suffer.

Sofia Samatar

#50. That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

Stephen King

#51. 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

#52. Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak
like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support
something that ought to be arrested.

Mark Twain

#53. The sky was something she'd so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed to her infinitely more God to be found by staring up at the never-ending universe than by looking glumly around a building of bricks and stone.

Ali Shaw

#54. All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.

Mindy Kaling

#55. I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.

Brendon Urie

#56. Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.

Soren Kierkegaard

#57. When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong.

Mitch Hedberg

#58. 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

#59. You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

Les Brown

#60. We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.

Alan Brennert

#61. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#62. There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

Edmund Hillary

#63. The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

#64. The surest path to positive self-esteem is to succeed at something which one perceived would be difficult. Each time we steal a student's struggle by insisting they do work too easy for them, we steal their opportunity to have an esteem-building experience.

Sylvia B. Rimm

#65. 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.

Nicholas Meyer

#66. I feel there is something almost sacred about building a boat ... It is almost like creating a living being, a boat seems to have a soul and character all her own ... It requires more thought to give a boat a good name than it does a child.

John Guzzwell

#67. When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet ... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world ...

Kobo Abe

#68. 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.

Dexter Gordon

#69. The art of marketing is largely the art of brand building. When something is not a brand, it will be probably be viewed as a commodity.

Philip Kotler

#70. There was something elemental and, all right, fundamentally sexy, about a guy building a fire for a woman. Maybe it went back to caveman times. She felt a natural attraction to a man with the instinct to make a fire for her.

Susan Wiggs

#71. It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Tim O'Reilly

#72. The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#73. The place smelled like Sam
or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.

Maggie Stiefvater

#74. 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

#75. Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Amy Chua

#76. He looked as pained as I felt at that moment, and I figured we were dancing around something way more dangerous than the roof of my apartment building. If I didn't change the focus, one of us was bound to do something stupid, and soon.
Probably me.

T. Torrest

#77. Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Brian Tracy

#78. It was an unsettling thought, that somehow we were sliding back into the smoky dark and that never again would man make something so perfect as this small building.

Bernard Cornwell

#79. Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

Quentin Crisp

#80. When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#81. . Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul.

Bernadette Allen

#82. The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember.

John Hegarty

#83. The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

Mark Zuckerberg

#84. For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Peter Gould

#85. Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

Calvin Seerveld

#86. You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.

Chad Harbach

#87. I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Richard C. Armitage

#88. You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

Aasif Mandvi

#89. When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.

Eric Drooker

#90. You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

Mark Zuckerberg

#91. And in that moment, Grace understood something that she would never forget: Home wasn't just a building or an apartment with a roof and beds and chairs inside. Home was with her family, wherever they were.

Priscilla Cummings

#92. Cookie had taken her daughter amber to school then walked the thirty-something feet to work earlier. Our business was on the second floor of Calamity's, my dad's bar, which sat right in front of our apartment building. The short commute was nice and rarely invloved rabid raccoons.

Darynda Jones

#93. Opinionated frameworks are also easier to learn because there is usually a "right" way to do something. The downside is that you're limited to building applications that the framework was made for, and moving outside of the use cases the framework was made for can be difficult

Jeff D. Dickey

#94. By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.

Jason Medina

#95. Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Emmitt Smith

#96. Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Joss Whedon

#97. 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.

James Patterson

#98. When they ask me why I jumped off the roof of my brother's apartment building, I will tell them it was because I wanted the sky to mourn me.

And because I wanted to know what it feels like to hit something so hard it shatters me into bits that they can never sew back together.

Kady Hunt

#99. Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

Greg Behrendt

#100. 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.

Collis Potter Huntington