Quotes About Building

#1. What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

Benny Anderson

#2. The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. The biggest cause of failure in software-intensive systems is not technical failure; it's building the wrong thing.

Mary Poppendieck

#4. The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

Fareed Zakaria

#5. When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

Richard Serra

#6. You - and I'll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays - fancies himself a poet, when all you're doing is building little towers of words set prettily on a page.

Therese Anne Fowler

#7. All you really need to do is focus on building quality relationships instead of trying to be a social butterfly at every social gathering.

S.J. Scott

#8. HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

Randy Shilts

#9. 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.

Richard Smalley

#10. My mom's voice filtered through my thoughts as I stopped in front of the Robert Byrd Science Building, out of the breath from racing up the steepest, most inconvenient hill in history.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. We must care about unbelievers because God does. Love leaves no choice. The Bible says, "There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear."18 A parent will run into a burning building to save a child because their love for that child is greater than their fear.

Rick Warren

#12. Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

Terence McKenna

#13. What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.

Sam Hamill

#14. China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#15. The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

J.C. Ryle

#16. If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

Seth Klarman

#17. Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. You can't be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn't make you a person of faith ... , that makes you a schizophrenic.

Bill Maher

#19. When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.

Rich Hall

#20. The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

Vivienne Westwood

#21. Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine.
Unfortunately, these principles began to lose their footing in the late 1800s, when building practices shifted toward more commercial technologies.

Shannon Taylor Scarlett

#22. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Walt Disney

#23. To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

Billy Graham

#24. 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.

Gary Hamel

#25. I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

Rene Burri

#26. We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

Virginia Postrel

#27. To the loo, when the fire alarm went off. But I didn't know Jenny was in the building. I didn't know to

Anonymous

#28. Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.

Mike Marsh

#29. To be a queen-that would not sweeten the bitter water against which I had been building the dam in my soul. It might strengthen the dam, though.

C.S. Lewis

#30. People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

Kanye West

#31. Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

David Walker

#32. The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

Christopher Alexander

#33. [..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..]

Douglas Adams

#34. The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

Rick Rowley

#35. Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

John Hutton

#36. The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Colin Powell

#37. He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.

Ryu Murakami

#38. No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.

Gina Greenlee

#39. I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.

Rahul Kohli

#40. We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.

J.G. Ballard

#41. When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

David Ulevitch

#42. We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world.
Prayer is of paramount importance in developing our relationship with our Savior and in building up and supporting others through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Will Graham

#43. Were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man's foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels ...

Ayn Rand

#44. The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

Jim Trelease

#45. The key to human development is building on who you already are

Tom Rath

#46. 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.

Julius Wellhausen

#47. Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction.

Thomas L. Friedman

#48. I bet you're really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

Valerie Thomas

#49. I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Peter Zumthor

#51. When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.

Christine Caine

#52. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.

Dorianne Laux

#53. One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.

Justin Trudeau

#54. My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

Russell Smith

#55. Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Eknath Easwaran

#56. A week later he was in Tokyo, his face reflected in an elevator's gold-veined mirror for this three-floor ascent of the aggressively nondescript O My Golly Building. To be admitted to Death Cube K, apparently a Franz Kafka theme bar.

William Gibson

#57. My church wasn't confined to the inside of a building. I carried it around with me everywhere I went.

Joni Mayhan

#58. Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

Mary N. Cook

#59. The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let's exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith - an eternal home for the soul.

Billy Graham

#60. The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

Adam Christopher

#61. We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

George W. Bush

#62. We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.

Jeb Bush

#63. As we sat, huddled together in this rotting, rundown building, I knew I was surrounded by the most intense love I'd ever known.

Rachel Higginson

#64. Gorky called for the building of a monument to the young martyr, who, the writer said, had 'understood that a relative by blood may also be an enemy of the spirit, and that such a person is not to be spared'.69

Orlando Figes

#65. When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

Fay Wray

#66. 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

#67. Sometimes I hope I'm building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I've recovered, they'll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that lasts twenty-four hours.

Sophie Kinsella

#68. One bad decision is like building a long line of dominoes and then sneezing and not turning your head

Julia Kent

#69. Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

Vivek Wadhwa

#70. The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the problem of building complex systems that are reliable and that work, and that problem has long predated the problem of access to encryption keys.

Matt Blaze

#71. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

#72. It stole my soul, laid claim to me in a way I didn't know was possible. It reached down inside me, doing more than building a fire. There was hope in that kiss. There was a promise of more, of redemption. Of salvation.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#73. 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

#74. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

Origen

#75. Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

Yukiya Amano

#76. 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.

Nancy Kress

#77. The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Dave Zirin

#78. When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

Louis Sullivan

#79. 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.

Bill Belichick

#80. I visit Fox News every now and again, and it's nice, because the Eye of Mordor is above the building.

Jon Stewart

#81. As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance - an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love - then external lack is bound to be temporary.

Marianne Williamson

#82. If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we'd know a lot more about life after death." "Dead

Jason Arnopp

#83. 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.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

#84. 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.

Seth Shostak

#85. Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.

Gay Mitchell

#86. The best man day in the world would involve building a bridge and then blowing up that bridge. Which is why you can't make a better man movie than The Bridge on the River Kwai, unless you make Two Bridges on the River Kwai.

Joel Stein

#87. Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration ...

Santiago Martinez Delgado

#88. The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And inside they'd pulled together a staggering display of Regency furniture. I've seen most of the stuff that matters. I simply stood there, gaping.

Jonathan Gash

#89. For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance," ... "By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

Jacques Chirac

#90. We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

Justin Rosenstein

#91. Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.

Kevin McCloud

#92. Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

Mercedes Ruehl

#93. We're not going to make love? And I'm relieved. In fact, he's had a totally hands-off approach with me all day. I wonder if I should be alarmed by this turn of events, but since my inner goddess has left the building and taken my libido with her, I'll think about it in the morning.

E.L. James

#94. We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.

Richard Drew

#95. 20But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Anonymous

#96. All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

Bell Hooks

#97. 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

#98. It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

Sam Levenson

#99. House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in its landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces.

Edmund De Waal

#100. My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

Christopher Bollen