Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

I used to have a little whisky before I went on stage. I realized that could have slowly turned into something a bit more serious. I get hyped up. I also think doing it a lot, you get used to it. You get more confidence. It's confidence building, really.

I've always said if I could own one piece it would be Vermeer's The Love Letter, and if I could put it anywhere it would be in a David Chipperfield building. I'm almost there with the building - Chipperfield is building a new house for me in London. The Vermeer is a long way off.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I've been very, very successful at building probably the most recognizable, physically recognizable brand in personal development.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I've never lived in a building without my name on it.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

I wasn't as confident and creative in the beginning as I am now, so it was all very safe. But I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

I was certainly seriously emotionally affected [ when Louise Hillary and Belinda Hillary died], but we were building the hospital at the time and I decided that the only thing to do was to carry on and complete the hospital - and it was a jolly good hospital too, I might say. So I really did it by working and working on the things that Louise and I had been working on.

I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

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

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

Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

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

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

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.

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.