Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

If you're not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you're building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you're not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.

I had a dream about building a house on a dock, composed from 100 triangles. You'd have to sail from room to room. And maybe the entrance would be the mouth of a whale.

I had met [Donald] Trump once before, when he testified before a committee that Tom Coburn - Senator Coburn - and I hosted, to deal with excessive expenditures to refurbish the UN building in New York.

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.

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

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.

I liked the idea of architectural games - you're always building and rebuilding. And I still thought of myself in opposition. I thought, If architects build a dream house, then I want to build a bad-dream house. My piece was called Bad Dream House.

I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

I learn from all our major competitors, whether they're in or out of the U.S. Wells Fargo is very actively, very aggressively, and very successfully building its U.S. investment bank.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

I'll stick to building ships.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.

I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.