Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or everything has been to expand it, instead of backtracking or trying to destroy what we have done.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

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.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

What valuable company is nobody building?

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

When does a building actually become a built?

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

When you're at the beginning of your career, there are a lot of, "I don't care about this," jobs that you take because it's about building your resume and building connections. There are so many factors that don't have anything to do with choosing for the material.