Building Quotes
Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate.
A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply
A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.
I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.
We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.