Top 100 To Build Something Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
Seth Godin
#3. 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
#5. To build something, you need sirious people. There aren't any such, or my luck is that I don't find them!
Deyth Banger
#6. Humans are born to build something outrageous.
Kumar
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.
Scott Eastwood
#13. 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
#14. I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.
Kris Jenner
#15. 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
#16. I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.
Jack O'Neill
#17. 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
#18. Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.
Mark Zuckerberg
#19. It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
Sam Altman
#20. Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Niklas Zennstrom
#21. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive ... to build something beautiful.
Steve Maraboli
#22. We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested.
Gary LeVox
#23. It's crazy to look at [my baby], flesh and blood, and know that [my husband] and I were able to build something real and solid out of a material as blurry and intangible as love.
Jodi Picoult
#24. Life's too short to build something nobody wants.
Ash Maurya
#25. From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
Sanford I. Weill
#26. When a man attempts to build something in the physical realm that has not been built in the spiritual one, he will most certainly fail.
Sunday Adelaja
#27. I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
Hamdi Ulukaya
#28. Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.
Brandon Sanderson
#29. Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.
Deborah Tannen
#30. What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.
Paul Graham
#31. It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
Edward M. Lerner
#32. I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
David Karp
#33. You want to build something what's been tore down, choose a woman. You want to tear something down, choose a man.
Adrian Selby
#34. I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#35. You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
Ram Shriram
#36. Scrum embraces the fact that in product development, some level of variability is required in order to build something new.
Kenneth S. Rubin
#37. All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.
Alexander McCall Smith
#38. People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.
Kevin Systrom
#39. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#40. The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
William C. Brown
#41. We have to live with the certainty that we'll get old and that it won't look nice or be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it's nowt hat matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength.
Muriel Barbery
#42. I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.
Max Levchin
#43. Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.
Ashton Kutcher
#44. Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better.
Jennifer Egan
#45. Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald Trump
#46. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.
Brittany Murphy
#47. restlessness is far more important and powerful than simple ambition or raw intelligence. It is the foundation of resilience, and self-motivation. It is fueled by curiosity, the ache to build something meaningful, and a sense of purpose to make the most of one's entire life.
Brent Schlender
#48. An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.
Ryan Holmes
#49. A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.
Sundar Pichai
#50. I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Mitt Romney
#51. On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
Howard Rheingold
#52. I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
Mark Zuckerberg
#53. We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#54. I'm proposing ... that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.
John Wilbanks
#55. In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
Olivia Wilde
#56. We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,' Tavis reflected. 'Together, we need to build something that's never existed before - a global network of light.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#57. It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
Soren Kierkegaard
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.
Elizabeth Hand
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.
Richard Rogers
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.
Seymour Papert
#78. 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
#79. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.
Walt Disney
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
Howard Shore
#88. There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.
Richard Rainwater
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.
Henry Markram
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
