Building Things Quotes

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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  Whatever good things we build end up building us.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 16, 2017

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• None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

  Mother Teresa

  Teamwork, Together We Can, Great Love

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• 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

  Ideas, Things I Love, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

  Ryan Holiday

  Real, Imagination, Knows

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.138, Profile Books

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• Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Home

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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• I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

  Will Self

  Writing, Thinking, Language

  "Will Self (1961- )", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Aunt, Florida

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• American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Rights, Government, Substance

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

  Larry Page

  Building, Should

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• Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.

  Seth

  Art, Offering, Understanding

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• I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

  Colin Angle

  Mother, Book, Age

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• Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

  John Collison

  Technology, Ideas, People

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• You want to know how to be like indians?  Live close to the earth.  Get rid of some of your things.  Help each other.  Talk to the creator.  Be quiet more.  Listen to the earth instead of building things on it all the time.

  Kent Nerburn

  Earth, Want, Helping

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder”, p.185, New World Library

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• I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

  Benjamin Carson

  Program, Scholarship, Organizing Things

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.

  Zhang Xin

  Wall, Pyramids, Quality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.

  Chris Sharma

  Thinking, House, Creative

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

  John Engler

  Raw Materials, Transforming, Products

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• We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Orbit, Mars, Humans

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• One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  People, Purpose, Purpose Of Life

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• There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

  George Lucas

  Kids, People, Adults

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

  David Lynch

  Father, Kids, House

  Interview With Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Knowing

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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