Building Quotes - Page 12

• My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

  Thom Mayne

  Mean, Talking, Architecture

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• I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

  Alexander Jackson Davis

  Native American, Architecture, Architect

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• My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

  Julia Morgan

  Talking, Long, Legacy

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• Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

  Jon Jones

  Fall, Stories, Six

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• I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

  Ken Yeang

  Thinking, Architecture, Should

  "CNN" Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, People, New Life

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• And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.

  George W. Bush

  Determination, War, Men

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• Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

  Jim Horning

  Learning, Views, Wings

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• The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Family, Block, Solidarity

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• But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Army, Building Up, Leave Me Alone

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• I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Roots, Bricks

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• If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Faith, Fall, Insane Person

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS

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• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  Origen

  Strong, Weather, House

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• Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

  Erving Goffman

  Identity, Cracks, World

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• The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lines, Speech, Natural

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard (1998). “Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts”, p.130, SteinerBooks

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• I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Thinking, Stronger

  "GOP Rising Star Tim Scott on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Building Up, Fields, Saws

  "Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.

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• As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Winter, Pyramids, Olympus

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• I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, Law, Republic

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• When does a building actually become a built?

  Le Corbusier

  Doe, Architecture, Built

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• Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Thinking, Firsts, Burberry

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• Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

  Aaron Levie

  People, Innovation, Needs

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• Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

  Bliss Carman

  Writing, Miracle, Planning

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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