Build Quotes

• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, but only as long as it's not visible from the street.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Opportunity
  • Build
  • Street

• The only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Past
  • Tomorrow
  • Bury

• One thing that's always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Build
  • Diverse
  • Drumming

• The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Secret
  • Existence

• I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • House
  • Advantage
  • Restriction

• As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• Our principal strategy is to build on the borough's strengths, ... We really believe that this will help make Queens an overall better place to live, to work, to visit.

  

  John Young
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Queens

• Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Resolve

• Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • Children
  • City
  • Species

• I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Build
  • Clock
  • Cuckoo

• Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Build
  • Died
  • Monument

• We definitely aren't going to put anything out unless we feel like we're growing. And I think because of the respect that we all have for each other, we kind of build up each other's confidence.

  

  Dan Donegan Disturbed
  • Respect
  • Definitely
  • Unless

• On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Tree
  • Solitude
  • Build

• I just like to build things and do things.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Things
  • Build

• It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Start
  • Build
  • Hopefully

• When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go into a quiet section here, explode here,' in a way that there's a flow and it doesn't feel like shuffle on an iPod.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Here

• Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • River
  • Bridge
  • Build

• One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • House
  • Build

• Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.

  

  Benjamin F Sullivan
  • Happy
  • Discover
  • Hating

• Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Imagination
  • Obstacles
  • Build

• And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Men
  • Build
  • Ruine

• When I say things like "I want to build a machine that can be proud of me," that's not just a joke.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Proud
  • Say
  • Joke

• I do not write, I build.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Write
  • Build

• Checklists and other formal processes of coordination are not enough because they cannot deal with unanticipated situations. Through Humble Inquiry teams can build the initial relationships that enable them to learn together. As they build higher levels of trust through joint learning, they become more open in their communication, which, in turn, enables them to deal with the inevitable surprises that arise in complex interdependent situations.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Learning
  • Trust
  • Communication

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