Building Quotes · Page 27

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

— Bob Nelson

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

— Patrick Lencioni

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

— Philip Toshio Sudo

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Aaron Levie

I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for.

— Harold Ballard

I think most Americans, when we're building a character, we look at the specificity of what that person is, in particular.

— LaTanya Richardson

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

— Itzhak Perlman

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of…

— Billy Joe Saunders

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for…

— Tom Morello

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes."…

— Ayn Rand

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate…

— Henry Kett

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building,…

— Joan Crawford

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life…

— Philippe Petit

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…

— Walter Gropius

In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come…

— Dave Cutler

When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would…

— Vito Acconci

NASA needs to decide, along with Congress, what our destination is going to be, whether it's going to be the moon, an…

— Shannon Walker

You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you…

— Nell Freudenberger

Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or…

— Gerhard Richter

Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about…

— Bucky Sinister

The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty.…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces,…

— Terry Pratchett

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

— Rick Riordan

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

— Aaron Sorkin

“At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds”

— Dr. V. V. Rao

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

— Anonymous

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

— Andrew Carnegie

I'm really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career…

— Kelvin Sampson

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

— Ken Schoolland

“Once their trust grows stronger, reputation is built. And in the digital age, reputation is more expensive than anything.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

— Markus Zusak

Thank you to my fans for building me up and supporting me, and thank you to my sister for humbling me.

— Maisie Peters

We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

— Narendra Modi

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

— Benjamin Clementine

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

— Bjarke Ingels

Leaders at Oyo aspire for ambitious targets which act as directional north stars for building for scale.

— Ritesh Agarwal

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

— Frances McDormand

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

— Bob Menendez