Building Quotes · Page 33

“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.”

— Steven Magee

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

— Jack Welch

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

— Aberjhani

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

— Bill Maher

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

— Ricky Gervais

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

— Lil Wayne

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

— Winston Churchill

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

— Philip Johnson

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much…

— Ezra Taft Benson

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and…

— Rem Koolhaas

We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think…

— Kiki Dee

The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow.…

— Ahmed Rashid

There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are…

— Diane von Furstenberg

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those…

— Rondal Partridge

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a…

— Peter B. Lewis

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can…

— Greg Louganis

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a…

— Umberto Eco

Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is…

— Thomas Sowell

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits…

— Tucker Max

When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing…

— Robert Benchley

Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having…

— Elizabeth David

Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes…

— Gar Alperovitz

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For…

— Chuck Klosterman

What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover?…

— Ricky Gervais

If I don't have any other strength, I'm pretty good at building relationships.

— David Fizdale

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

— Mannie Fresh

I'm building my plethora of things that I'm into but purely starting because of passion and love.

— Evan Mock

You can never really replicate the dressing-room environment and building something as a group of players.

— Joe Root

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

— Edsger Dijkstra

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

— Judy Chicago

Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it.

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Georgina Chapman

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

— Thomas a Kempis

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

— Richard Attias

Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.

— Yemi Osinbajo

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— Ross Levinsohn

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

— MC Lyte

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

— Roy Orbison

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

— Gautam Adani