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Quotes About Building

IN THE LOBBY of her building, people fresh out of the wind were huffing and puffing like swimmers just crawled up on shore. She
~ Alice McDermott
I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.
~ Alice Munro
I started first by building a skills inventory of each team member (learning about competencies) and worked with them individually identifying their strengths and weaknesses.
~ Allan R. Cohen
HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Terror was a fire that held you trapped in the top floor of a burning building; the only way to escape it was to jump.
~ Joe Hill
Spiritual Student! Rejoice as the outer building tumbles down, for the inner Temple is to be revealed. The mind of the individual seeking help is the Christ-mind –awaiting recognition. The man who has his being "in Christ" finds his capacities and abilities in Soul –not in the brain, body, or muscle.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Of course, the annals of MIT are full of Wiener stories, some of which are probably true. But nobody knows which ones, I think. My favorite one was where he met the graduate student on the stairs there in Building 2, on the flight of stairs, and he stopped midway to talk to the graduate student for a minute. When he got through, he said to the kid, "Which way was I going when you met me?" "You were going up." "Oh, good. Then I've had lunch.
~ Joel Segel
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My life is about building and working and wrenching on some cars.
~ Adam Carolla
The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
~ Paul McEuen
Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man.
~ E.M. Forster
So dark was the afternoon that some of the lights had been turned on inside, and the great building suggested a tomb, miraculously illuminated by spirits of the dead.
~ E.M. Forster
Why are you all wasting human labour and the world's wealth in building machinery to commit mass murder – creatures that for half a million years and more have been endowed with reason – conscious beings who discovered a better way long centuries ago?
~ Eden Phillpotts
Ultimately the purpose of Humble Inquiry is to build relationships that lead to trust which, in turn, leads to better communication and collaboration.
~ Edgar H. Schein
In building the helping relationship, encouragement—via positive reinforcement—certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting. My
~ Edgar H. Schein
we value task accomplishment over relationship building and either are not aware of this cultural bias or, worse, don't care and don't want to be bothered with it.
~ Edgar H. Schein
the corner by the old Piggly Wiggly building, I felt the familiar edge
~ Edie Claire
The image of building a life from solid success to solid success is a wonderful dream, but it is only a fantasy.
~ Edward B. Burger
When safety is a factor, call in a contractor.
~ Anonymous
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.
~ Anonymous
So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
~ Anonymous
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
~ Anonymous
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.
~ Anonymous
the ruins that can be seen today are of a later building), where Spartacus once fought.
~ Anthony Everitt