Quotes About Building

The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances, if left unchecked, turn into major nuisances: that is, if someone breaks a window and sees it isn't fixed immediately, he gets the signal that it's all right to break the rest of the windows and maybe set the building afire too.

Building by building, Chicago was lifted by an army of men with jackscrews. As the jackscrews raised the buildings inch by inch, workmen would dig holes under the building foundations and install thick timbers to support them, while masons scrambled to build a new footing under the structure.

Cualquier imbécil puede derribar un granero, pero para construirlo se necesita un carpintero

I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.

Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

You must take immediate of control the sale. 2 You must engage in massive intelligence gathering, while you simultaneously build massive rapport with your prospect. 3 You must smoothly transition into a Straight Line presentation, so you can begin the process of building absolute certainty for each of the Three Tens.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Joy is the verified, repeated experience of those involved in what God is doing. It is as real as a date in history, as solid as a stratum of rock in Palestine. Joy is nurtured by living in such a history, building on such a foundation.

The premise of the psalm for all work is that God works: "If GOD doesn't build the house . . . If GOD doesn't guard the city . . ." The condition if presupposes that God does work: he builds; he guards.

We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

BUILD WITH LEGO Big is best built from small. Bake one small cake. Bake another. And another. Then stack them.

One thing at a time, as in the days when I was building Joshua. If I had wanted to build all the boat at once, the enormity of the task would have crushed me. I had to put all I had into the hull alone, without thinking about the rest. It would follow . . . with the help of the gods. Sailing non-stop around the world is the same. I do not think anyone has the means of pulling it off—at the start.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

The local-church thinker says, "We are building a great church." The kingdom thinker says, "We are taking the rule of Christ to the world.

Shouldn't a real city have at least one building with an elevator?

Being able to accelerate trust organizationally in a tangible, practical way is a big deal. Intellectually, people understand the importance of trust, but translating that concept into reality is an entirely different matter. Leaders and managers struggle with it especially. They often find it maddening knowing that building trust is essential but not knowing exactly how to build trust within their organization.