Building Quotes · Page 24

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

— Mason Cooley

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

— Winston Churchill

I'm in the process of building a separate house behind my house, just for shoes. Like a little show room.

— LaMarcus Aldridge

While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment.

— Brian Solis

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

— Socrates

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

— Arthur Erickson

I promise I will never even THINK about going up in a tall building again. Oh, God. Please don't let me die.

— John Mcclane

I have gone from training by myself to having a team of professional people that have been building athletes for years.

— Dillian Whyte

A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive…

— Dave Ramsey

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture…

— Marie Rutkoski

My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day's work out of fellas. And…

— Adrian Dunbar

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our…

— Ayah Bdeir

The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to…

— Jon Foreman

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two…

— Daniel Alarcon

I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear…

— Rob Thurman

I just need to learn how to get better and understand my role in the defense and just find a way to…

— Micah Parsons

Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend…

— Stephen Dobyns

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people…

— Matt Mullenweg

There's a question of building trust, and I think that President Barack Obama offers trust. Personally, I think he is a transparent…

— Rafael Correa

He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the…

— Sebastian Faulks

In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting…

— Pope Francis

You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are…

— David Berg

Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even…

— Richard Branson

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked…

— Sebastian Thrun

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

— Abby Sunderland

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

— David Walker

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

— Terence McKenna

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

— Stephen Covey

Having, and building, a team that plays good football is important.

— Andre Villas-Boas

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

— Sam Altman

Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.

— Dizzee Rascal

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

— Robert Herjavec

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

— Stephen Chbosky

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.

— Ash Sarkar

The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.

— Killer Mike

We can architect and work towards building any world we imagine, for ourselves and future generations.

— Bryan Johnson

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

— Neil Gaiman

Building relationships. Communicating. Trust. Those are three things I've kind of instilled myself with.

— Dave Martinez