Building Quotes

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?!?

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

By law, all buildings should be white.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.