Building Quotes - Page 39

• The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

  Aga Khan IV

  Mean, Awards, Trying

  Interview with Robert Ivy, www.architecturalrecord.com. February 1, 2002.

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• Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you.  Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

  Heidi

  Doors, Networking, Who You Know

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• As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

  R. K. Laxman

  Children, Eye, Opposites

  R. K. Laxman (1998). “The tunnel of time: an autobiography”, Viking Pr

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• Position yourself to succeed first by building good relationships with the right people; and then put your effort and expertise behind that!

  Garrison Wynn

  People, Good Relationship, Effort

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• A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Reality, Strategy, Plans

  FaceBook post by Martin Lindstrom from Aug 29, 2016

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• The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

  Fred Brooks

  Software, Hardest

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• I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.

  Jacques Tati

  People, Giving, Spirit

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• Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Advertising, Breakthrough, Mice

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• 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.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Block, Writing, Cities

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• Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Humanity, Dignity, Labor Union

  "Workers' rights are under threat across the world" by Keith Ewing, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.

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• We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  Littles, Too Much

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.334, Vintage

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• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

  Walter Ulbricht

  People, German History, Needs

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• Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

  Dave Freudenthal

  Change, Commitment, Problem

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• WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

  Steven Biko

  Ethos, Together, Existence

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• China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Years, Europe, Population

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• Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

  Richard Dooling

  Fate, Animal, Men

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• In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

  Thomas Keller

  Fundraising, Chef, Restaurants

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• It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

  Jonah Lomu

  Fall, Home, Ordinary Days

  "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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• We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Government

  Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Iron, Ends, Slips

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• The Iranian regime calls for the annihilation of Israel, it oppresses its own citizens, it's part of the murder going on in Syria and it's building an atomic bomb.

  Mark Regev

  Israel, Citizens, Bombs

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• Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Responsibility, Decision

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

  Marc Andreessen

  Business, Technology, Doe

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• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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