Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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

What valuable company is nobody building?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.

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.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

While I enjoy and have enjoyed great success building my own personal apparel and accessories collections, my greatest passion has and will always be real estate.

While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...

Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.

You be really careful.” – Sundown “Always. You have to be careful when you fly, or you end up smeared on the side of a building.” – Ren

Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

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.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings