Building Quotes - Page 20

• Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Sex, Memories, War

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.10, Random House

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• Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.

  Paul Orfalea

  Mother, Running, Shelter

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• Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

  Edwin Arnold

  Passion, Stones, Taj Mahal

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• Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

  Sterling W Sill

  Motivational, Successful, Life Is

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• I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

  Helmut Jahn

  Urban, Minors, Majors

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• It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

  Helmut Jahn

  Long, Goal, Needs

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• Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Adventure, Intellectual, Deeds

  "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by F. A. Hayek, "The Intellectuals and Socialism", p. 194, 1967.

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• We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Dwelling, Islands

  "On anticipation". www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2002.

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• The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can
  know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for
  mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do
  that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in
  a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices,
  you cannot gain its value.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Order, Practice

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

  H. R. Giger

  Function, Integrated, Creatures

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• Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

  Ben Horowitz

  Years, Bars, Lasts

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• You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Building Up, Stadiums, Knows

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• I feel really bad for everyone who died on 9/11. Not just the people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Flight 93, but all of the terrorists, too. 'Garden State' came out in 2004. That means none of them got a chance to see it. Let that sink in for a second. No wonder they're building a memorial.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Garden, People

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• Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Guy, Say Anything

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• If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.

  Allan Jacobs

  Impact, Cities, People

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• Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Water, Challenges

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

  Seth Godin

  Mistake, Book, Marketing

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• I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.

  Eric Ries

  Running, Entrepreneur, Effort

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• Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

  Tim McGraw

  Years, Games, Albums

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• In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Cat, Burning, Vegetarian

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• Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

  Aristotle

  Education, School, People

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• I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, New York, Emotional

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• All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

  Alain Robert

  Hiking, Mountain, Forbidden

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• I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

  Donald Judd

  Interesting, Attention, Done

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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• Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Leader, Healthy, Best Coaches

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