Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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 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 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.

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.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Building a business where everyone thrives

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

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

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

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

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

Building design isn't trendy.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Buildings are forms of performances.

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening.

Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

Building a team is the nucleus for every piece of success.

Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Building smart processes to streamline the workflow can make the work easier and the results more reliable, which keeps my head above water and my clients happy.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.