Building Quotes - Page 37

• By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Teamwork, Working Together, Resources

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

  Heraclitus

  Children, Men, Sea

  "Contemporary Literature in Translation". Issues 23-32 (p. 21), 1976.

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• I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Is, People, Want

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• We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is the only country in the world where women and men report that they attend the mosque in equal numbers, but our institutions aren't representing this reality.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Country, Reality, Men

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• The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

  Warren Buffett

  Rain, Ark, Doe

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• A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

  James Madison

  Eye, Names, Heaven

  James Madison (1962). “Papers”

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• When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire ... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Differences, Creating

  "Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School". Book by Richard Branson, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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• Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

  Helmut Jahn

  Air, People, Chinese

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• On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Safety, Tree, Tanks

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2000). “Interpreter of Maladies”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Recovery, Building Up, Ideas

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• People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Honesty, Self, Years

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• Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

  Brian Houston

  Team, Goal, Leader

  FaceBook post by Brian Houston from Nov 22, 2011

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• Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Pride, Self, Healthy

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal”, p.130, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

  John Elder Robison

  Building Up, Weakness, World

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• If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

  David Chipperfield

  Simple, Quality, Looks

  "David Chipperfield: perfect harmony" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2010.

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• Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

  David Walker

  Order, Bridges, Empowering

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• We used to write this down by saying, 'move fast and break things.' And the idea was, unless you are breaking some stuff you are not moving fast enough. I think there's probably something in that for other entrepreneurs to learn which is that making mistakes is okay. At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mistake, Moving, Writing

  "Mark Zuckerberg, Moving Fast And Breaking Things". Business Insider Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 14, 2010.

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• To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Smart, Successful, Nurse

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• As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hunger Poverty, People, President

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• Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Important, Fiction

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• The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine.

  Thurman Arnold

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Writing, Practice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.344, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Thinking, Glasses, Light

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

  Emil Ruder

  Book, Design, Way

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