Building Quotes

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.

When you come in the building with your guns don't take them off.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

We all know that a church is not a building.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.

Have you seen the Vatican wall? It's over 50-feet high. It's over 50-feet high. It's not even the kind of wall [Donald] Trump's talking about building.

The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

An interesting opportunity is actually not just thinking about building organs for patients, but actually building little tiny organs that you could do drug screening on.

It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.