Building Quotes - Page 29

• They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Lying, Deceit, Nowhere To Go

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• I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

  Peter Block

  Leadership, Party, Agreement

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• It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

  Sarah Lacy

  May, Easier, Company

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• Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Trying, Program

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Fun, Joy

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.43, Seal Press

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• After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

  Harry Seidler

  War, Technology, Earthquakes

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• Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Summer, Japan, Earthquakes

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• The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

  Donald Pleasence

  Character, Building Up, Goes On

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• Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

  Sergio Aragones

  Suspense Novels, Important, Stories

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• In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

  Felix Morley

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's real presence and activity in our daily lives. This has nothing to do with sentiment, thinking religious thoughts or having aesthetic experiences in church buildings; any religion can give you that sort of thing.

  Graham Kendrick

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

  Taylor Hanson

  New York, Cities, Empires

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• You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Team, People, Entrepreneur

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• You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State . The atmosphere reminded me of a word it was ’democracy.’

  Anna Louise Strong

  Jobs, Building Up, Feelings

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• For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

  Ruby Wax

  House, Mindfulness, Next

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• LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Block, Taken, Creativity

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• The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Passion, Heart, Recovery

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• 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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• 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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• In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Risk, Trying

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• When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

  Andres Segovia

  Mean, Musician, Should

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