Build Quotes

• 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

• America’s Founders understood literacy as a prerequisite for freedom and our form of self-government. Once we know how to read, what we read matters. So let’s build some reading lists of books you plan to wrestle with and be shaped by for the rest of your lifetime.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Freedom
  • Lifetime
  • Founders

• I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • House
  • City
  • Grand opera

• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Excitement

• I don't want to build a bunch of homes and sit on them.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Build
  • Homes
  • Don't Want

• Let's build bridges, not walls.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Build
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Important
  • Powerful

• I've had to kind of work on using the lower half of my swing. It's kind of helped me to create a little more rhythm and create a lot better power numbers. I'm just trying to go with that and build on that, and basically just trying to figure myself out and my own swing so I can make adjustments better.

  

  David Lee Murphy
  • Work
  • Power
  • Create

• Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Mankind
  • Houses
  • Free Will

• Better to build orphanages than prisons.

  

  James Cook
  • Build
  • Prisons
  • Orphanages

• Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Build
  • Slopes

• You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Sing
  • Amazingly Brilliant

• We're concentrating on St. John's and what we're trying to do to build our program. We're trying to get our guys to play at the top level, and we're moving in that direction.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Program
  • Concentrating
  • St. John`s

• If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

  

  Lecrae
  • Build
  • Stones
  • Pickup

• The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

  

  Gary Player
  • Build
  • Ideal
  • Golfer

• You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Money
  • Want
  • More

• Don't worry about big ideas, keep making stuff. Build little things, build prototypes, make sketches.

  

  Ben Chestnut
  • Ideas
  • Don't Worry
  • Prototypes

• I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Sea
  • Build
  • Castles

• We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • House
  • Plant
  • Build

• I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

  

  Isambard K. Brunel
  • Engineering
  • Build
  • Station

• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Hands
  • Labor
  • Stones

• Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.

  

  Vance Law
  • Fact
  • Almost
  • Both

• A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Person
  • Create
  • Build

• Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Stuff
  • Blame
  • Murder

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