Quotes About Large Projects

#1. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

#2. Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

Barry Boehm

#3. you may be familiar with breaking large projects into smaller goals or milestones, but you seldom apply this to your life.

Jim Huling

#4. Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

Andy Goldsworthy

#6. Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.

Sandra Postel

#7. Only Brunel had experience with large-scale projects. He was indubitably a genius but an unnerving one, as it nearly always took epic infusions of time and cash to find a point of intersection between his soaring visions and an achievable reality.

Bill Bryson

#8. I have this cousin down in Georgia that skinny-dipped in the Chattahoochee and two hours later gave birth to crawfish." Leakey turned to walk away. "Crawfish, Chief. I'm just saying.

Jake Burrows

#9. The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

Paul Wellstone

#10. I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Jonas Gahr Store

#11. Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Thom Mayne

#12. A streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence.

John Crowley

#13. Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Joseph Hume

#14. If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.

James Collins

#15. The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.

Perry Chen

#16. The words on the pages within this book are solely dedicated to victims of bullying, those that ever have or still do suffer from depression, mental illness, and the struggles that accompany it. You are brave. You are strong. You are smart. You are beautiful. You are worth it.

Kathryn Perez

#17. The new race of warriors would be their hope, their salvation, their loves' destiny. But they too could be tainted. They too could be seduced by the black forces they had been created to fight against.

Madison Thorne Grey

#18. The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the earth, I see -
- architects and earthquakes - empaths and robots - fictions and near misses - lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.
I see us - trying on ways of being - so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.

Laurie Perez

#20. Investing scarce resources in large-scale public projects and capital goods does increase output, but it does not contribute to economic progress if these investments do not produce things people value.

Christopher J. Coyne

#21. I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things.

Haven Kimmel

#22. A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.

Emil M. Cioran

#23. But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Robert Browning