Building Quotes

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

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

To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.

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

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.