Building Quotes

• There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Ambition
  • China
  • Tension

• I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Wife
  • Chance
  • Photography

• Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Fun
  • Block
  • Fundamentals

• Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Character
  • Parent
  • Boys

• He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Mind
  • War
  • Earth

• I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Purpose
  • Innovation
  • Building

• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Risk
  • Courage
  • Humor

• Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Hands
  • Cities
  • Survive

• Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Religious
  • Anxiety
  • Social

• Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Team
  • Building
  • Companies

• I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Trying
  • Guilty
  • Danger

• Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Form

• If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Ends
  • Composition
  • Fairy

• I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Love
  • House
  • Building

• In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts...

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Time
  • Service
  • Building

• The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Together
  • Community
  • Problem

• In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • People
  • Fire
  • Destroyed

• I'll stick to building ships.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Building
  • Ships

• It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

  

  Robert Venturi
  • Building
  • Unusual

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