Quotes About Building

It's like the future is a building you put up on the foundations of the past.

Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

All your energy. Not on fighting the old. But on building the new. The secret of change.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. She hangs it on

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

This library must be where dreams come to gather new stories. No one would call this a mere building; it was a kaleidoscope of wondrous sights. Even the sounds were magical, the murmurs of hundreds of secrets being shared. I stood at the entry for several minutes, just drinking in the amazing place.

Building was profoundly connected with two crucial elements in the dynamic of Roman society: the manipulation of popular support, and the ability to entertain lavishly. Erecting public buildings and subsidising public leisure were considered so potentially politically seductive that at various times legislation was enacted to curtail involvement in such schemes by anyone outside the imperial family.

Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

El título es Limpia, mata y da esplendor: una historia de crímenes con el fantasma de Cervantes, que vagaría por nuestro edificio haciéndose visible sólo a los conserjes.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

The building blocks of life are readily available throughout the universe.

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.

I think the UFC's done a great job of building the brand, building the UFC, building MMA.

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

I love the building and the history. I understand not many people like me have played there. But the aim is not to conform to that building. It's to bring the Albert Hall into my world.

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning.

Because competence-building represents more cumulative learning than great leaps of inventiveness, it is difficult to "time compress" competence-building.