Building Quotes

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

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

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.

If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

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

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

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.

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

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.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

My hope is Donald Trump will focus on building bridges instead of walls.

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.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.

I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!

I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.