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Quotes About Building

When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
~ Abhishek Bachchan
I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.
~ Harvey Mason, Jr.
My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up.
~ Jennie Garth
When you own an apartment in NewYork, it's important to know what's happening in your building. Each building runs as its own little municipal town. Much like you might be interested in knowing what is happening in your town because it has a direct effect on the value of your property.
~ Carole Radziwill
There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.
~ Colin Angle
The "crisis" is a sudden realization of, or a sudden acting on, pressures that have been building up for a long time. This truth was acknowledged explicitly by Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, who (as we'll see in Chapter 7) devised a whirlwind program of apparently major changes in 19 days of December 1972, but who downplayed his own reforms as a "recognition of what has already happened.
~ Jared Diamond
Amid the luxurious freshness of Ipanema each building has its own secret police.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
~ Joshua Slocum
I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.
~ Paul Goldberger
Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.
~ Thomas Oden
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.
~ Dan Chaon
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
You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.
~ Hillary Clinton
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
~ Italo Calvino
The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.
~ James Howard Kunstler
It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
~ Artur Davis
I think that the strategy around FYI is really a corporate strategy, and that's that every one of our brands that we invest in have to matter and that we need to commit to building brands and investing in those brands, or we need to get out of that business.
~ Nancy Dubuc
I don't think of competition as much as journalists think I do. Our strategy has been very different from Uber. We are very focused on building as per the Indian dynamics.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Competing and streaming 'Fortnite' all night at the most iconic building in Chicago, a city close to my heart, is a dream come true.
~ Ninja
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.
~ Ben Sasse
The first year I was on 'Les Mis' there was strictly no filming backstage, then slowly social media proved invaluable to building an audience.
~ Carrie Hope Fletcher