Top 1200 Building Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building it, God will introduce a newer, smaller sun that's not compatible with their machinery.

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

There's obstacles, there's challenges, there's things that come in the way. So building relationships and building some of the expectations on the front end helps you deal with them so it doesn't just all come caving in.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".

When my accident happened, I had spent my entire life building my athletic ability, building my mental ability, making sure I could pass any tests I was ever given.

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

I get really angsty if I've got songs building up and I haven't gotten them recorded.

The best brands never start out with the intent of building a great brand. They focus on building a great – and profitable – product or service and an organization that can sustain it.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

For sure, there were days while building my business from the ground up that challenged me more than others, and maybe I just wanted to stay home and not face anyone, but I've always thought about the people on my team and their families, and the choice was easy: man up.

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.'

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

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

So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again." "For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.

It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.

Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again.

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.