Building Quotes - Page 30

• The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Special, Architecture

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• A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

  Ayn Rand

  Wall, Men, Giving

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.21, Penguin

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• The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Wall, Long, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.172

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• When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Peace, Healing, Thinking

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• In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Girl, New York, Air

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.103, Booklassic

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• Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Mean

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• The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Men, Organization, Empowering

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is to lose myself and become an empty person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Heart, Ambitious, Sides

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• Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

  Rob Pike

  Thinking, Trying, Decided

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• Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

  Charles Capps

  Block, Constructs, Building Blocks

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• Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody.

  Mike Patton

  Kings, Wall, Revenge

  "Faith No More". CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995.

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• But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Would Be, Cinema

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• When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Beautiful, People, World

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• Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Government, Surveillance Cameras, Shopping

  "A Watchful State" by Jeffrey Rosen, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2001.

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• I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

  Justin Vernon

  Mind, Woods, Slow Down

  "Woods". Song by Justin Vernon, 2009.

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• Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.

  Eva Hoffman

  Mean, Storm, Inward

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• I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

  Richard Siken

  Giving, Monsters, Burning

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• Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) × Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

  Tom Rath

  Thinking, Skills, Perfect

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• Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

  Bethany McLean

  Believe, Average, Magic

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• If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

  Liz Murray

  New York, Kids, Space

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• I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.

  Wes Nisker

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Perspective

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• When you view marketing from the vantage point of the guerrilla, you realize that it’s your opportunity to help your prospects and customers succeed. They want to succeed at earning more money, building their company, losing weight, attracting a mate, becoming more fit, or quitting smoking. You can help them. You can show them how to achieve their goal. Marketing is not about you. It’s about them. I hope you never forget that.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Opportunity, Views, Goal

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• We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

  Widad Akrawi

  Wall, War, Bridges

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• Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

  Widad Akrawi

  Loss, Rights, Ecosystems

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• Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]
  Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

  Steve McConnell

  Beer, Hands, Feet

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education

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