Building Quotes - Page 14

• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  Origen

  Strong, Weather, House

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• Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

  Erving Goffman

  Identity, Cracks, World

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• The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

  John Owen

  Home, Son, Men

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.40

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• The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lines, Speech, Natural

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard (1998). “Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts”, p.130, SteinerBooks

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• Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

  Robert Sheckley

  War, House, Lines

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “Dimension of Miracles”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.

  Herb Kelleher

  Home, Important, Bricks

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• You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

  Lou Gerstner

  Rain, Ark, Predicting

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• The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals  become more of who they are.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Organization, Helping, Strategy

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2013

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• I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Thinking, Stronger

  "GOP Rising Star Tim Scott on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Building Up, Fields, Saws

  "Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.

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• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

  Jeff Bezos

  Marketing, Balance, Energy

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• As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Winter, Pyramids, Olympus

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• I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, Law, Republic

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• When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Architecture

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• Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Order, White, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• When does a building actually become a built?

  Le Corbusier

  Doe, Architecture, Built

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• Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

  Carlos Slim

  Business, Issues, Records

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• Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Thinking, Firsts, Burberry

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• Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they've been passionate, thinking about and tinkering in this space forever. Those are the people you want to surround yourself with.

  Dennis Crowley

  Strong, Team, Thinking

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• Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

  Aaron Levie

  People, Innovation, Needs

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• Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

  Bliss Carman

  Writing, Miracle, Planning

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• Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Character, Opportunity

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Important, Alliances

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