Building Quotes

We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.

I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

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.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Building walls does not make any country great again.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

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

None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

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

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.

Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

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

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.