Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Look, I've had four kicks at the can. You've had a tremendous career. We're also happy. We've loved. We've lived. We don't starve. We haven't been shot in the gut. So at that point, I started getting a little more serious about the content we were making and the business and building the business. I also became more serious about life and being happy. I got married, I have kids - I'm happy at a cellular level now.

Look what [Chinese] are doing, they're building a massive fortress against everything. A massive fortress in the South China Sea. And yet they're ripping us off.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

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

Mitt Romney and John McCain and Donald Trump are very different candidates. This is the disruptive candidate who gets these huge crowds, is building momentum in last weeks of compaign. That was not true of the other two races.

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

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.'

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

New ideas often need old buildings.

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

Nobody has the intention of building a wall