Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

New ideas often need old buildings.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

Nobody has the intention of building a wall

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

Once when I told sex workers about my own sex work, it ended up building inappropriate trust with some people. But there have been events now - like covering the protests against Backpage at the Village Voice - where I've talked to sex workers who don't necessarily know that I've done sex work.

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.

Our focus must always be on building people up.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

President Obama deserves credit for building what you call the largest coalition to fight terror.

Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited

Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you.  Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration.

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.