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the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

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.

The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.

The managers of the big brands have a very clear responsibility. It's attracting and keeping talented people in order to sustain and build the trustworthiness of that brand. There is no clearer objective in the economy. Your economic success depends on expanding and building your economies of trustworthiness.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say "busted" or "confirmed" or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we're simply enjoying ourselves.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

There has maybe been a poor - a misunderstanding or statements that have maybe hurt, unfortunately. The Mexicans have felt offended by what has been said [by Donald Trump]. But I am certain that his genuine interest is in building a relationship that will provide our mutual societies improved wellbeing.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

There is a tendency in my work toward minimalism, in terms of stripping away the unnecessary. I am seeking a tightly ordered gestalt, usually. I've always felt a strong affinity towards Mondrian's work. I understand the importance of those subtle planar and linear modulations he made in the course of building up the incredible visual tension in his work.

There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.