Quotes with building

  • All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
  • You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
  • What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
  • Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
  • A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
  • You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
  • One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
  • Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
  • We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
  • 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 young talent coming through.
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Rauner A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Arthur Erickson Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bjarke Ingels 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
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Frank Gifford Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
    Frank Gifford
    American football player and actor (1930 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Bratt Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Andrew Vachss Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Ben Parr Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Alvar Aalto Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
    Alvar Aalto
    Finnish architect and designer (1898 - 1976)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Adolf Loos Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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