Building Quotes

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

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

I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.

Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

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

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

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

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.