Build Quotes

• 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

• 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

• We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams.

  

  Adrian Gostick
  • Culture
  • Teams
  • Corporate

• 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

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

  

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

• Better to build orphanages than prisons.

  

  James Cook
  • Build
  • Prisons
  • Orphanages

• 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

• All Jay and I did was build a base and establish the importance. Tiger took it from there.

  

  Earl Woods
  • Tiger
  • Establish
  • Base

• 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

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

  

  Martin Luther
  • Mankind
  • Houses
  • Free Will

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

  

  Lecrae
  • Build
  • Stones
  • Pickup

• 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

• 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

• Let's build bridges, not walls.

  

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

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Build
  • Slopes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I wouldn't say I'm moving to America; I certainly would say that I'm just staying there; and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to come here unless they've got an extensive CV in the U.K.; you have to build your career wherever you started from.

  

  Nonso Anozie
  • Career
  • Start
  • Build

• I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Done
  • Past
  • Conservative

• If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • People
  • Jobs
  • Ocean

• 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

• They were just unbelievable, how structured they were and her understanding of music, which is not something you would expect from a pop artist. She had these ideas already in place for songs; all I really had to do was build music around them and develop them. It was quite easy.

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Music
  • Understanding
  • Develop

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