Building Quotes
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I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.
Eero Saarinen -
Position yourself to succeed first by building good relationships with the right people; and then put your effort and expertise behind that!
Garrison Wynn
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I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.
Bailey White -
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.
Joseph Rykwert -
People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
Katharine Hepburn -
My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.
Rana el Kaliouby -
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
Michael Graves -
All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
Amos Alonzo Stagg -
strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning
W. Chan Kim -
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
Aristotle -
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
Ernst Zundel -
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)
Dan Harris
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It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
Zaha Hadid -
The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
Zaha Hadid -
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Richard Meier -
I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.
Danielle Dutton -
Here are the choices I don't want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.
Ray Mabus -
Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.
Walt Frazier
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I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.
Wes Nisker -
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
Cecilia Bartoli -
Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.
Anthony Robbins -
Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.
Anthony Lawlor