Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

And, yes, I love the process of building.

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

Anybody can leap off a building.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

Building a business where everyone thrives

Building Product - What it takes to be world class

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.