Building Quotes
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
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.
I’ve grown a lot as a player. I learned a lot, and I just have to keep building on that.
Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.
Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.
The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.
Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
Donald Trump is going to work on infrastructure, building the wall. He's going to farm leaders.
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.
Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.