Top 1200 Construction Projects Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I started working in 2010 on Pinterest, I really thought of myself as like a construction worker, metaphorically, building like you build a shed. You put the brick on top of a brick, and then you're done.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.

And you know, I've done a lot of research and I've been working on projects that embrace people who are tortured, or exploring what that is.

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

I am busy right now with my family, let alone all my other projects. It's an opportunity if it presents itself.

My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

Though farm chores and construction work are the most physically demanding jobs that I currently do, they feel like recess to me. And there's something really beautiful about work that feels like play.

I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.

If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.

The layman always means, when he says "reality" that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.

Out of 10 projects I get sent, seven or eight are female protagonists, and that's not the only thing I'm interested in.

I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

Rahul Gandhi can't be a youth icon only if the Congress projects him like that. People have to decide.

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

I just want to keep being involved in great projects that push positive messages to people.

I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver.

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

I have an awesome team. We all talk about what projects are the best for me to work on for my career and which ones to pass on.

Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.

I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think it has to move slowly, step by step. I pride myself on the construction of my stories but it's not something I impose on them.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

While the national highway system connects cities and facilitates economic activity across the nation, it's construction historically has been deeply destructive for many communities, particularly low-income communities and communities of color.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

All tax incentives do is make it cheaper to borrow for transportation projects. But you still have to pay that money back.

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

With the support and dedication from employees at every level of the company, we've been successful in expanding supplier diversity in many areas, including traditionally challenging areas such as construction services, legal and professional services.

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

The offers are plenty. I'm just taking time and only working on those projects that excite me.

When you work in film sets, when you're working on projects that are male dominated, you are always treated as the last priority.

We have authorized the construction, one day, of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines. And issued a new rule.American steel. If they want a pipeline in the United States, they're going to use pipe that's made in the United States.

President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

I would like to do more projects involving artists from film, fashion and music. That's the spark for me.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.