Building Quotes - Page 30

• Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

  Helmut Jahn

  Smart, Judging, Opinion

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• Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Godly, Impossible, Sand

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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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• You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Restroom, Humans

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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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• 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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• Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

  Philippe Starck

  People, Design, Sun

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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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• 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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• One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.

  Heather Hart

  Book, Giving, Marketing

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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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• This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer program anywhere in the world than we have in the Church today for the building of men and women and providing the answers to the problems that face parents, families, and individuals. It is a program that is needed today as never before.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Men, Church Today

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Sex, Nice

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.28, Penguin

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  Gale Sayers

  School, Nfl, Trends

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• Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

  Mark Steyn

  Europe, People, Liberty

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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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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• Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Mean, Order, Space

  Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press

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• Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Architecture, Cathedrals, Mere

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• HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

  Randy Shilts

  Character, Vanity, Cells

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• For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Dream, Government, Liberty

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• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Tombstone, Tragedy, Triumph

  "PG&E's real estate rumors" by David Lazarus, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2001.

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• Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

  Tony Dungy

  Legacy, Purpose, Patterns

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Prayer, Exercise

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