113 Quotes on Building

• Become the architect of your own destiny through the bricks of belief and the mortar of perseverance.

  Author: Sophia Rodriguez

• Success is built one brick of determination at a time.

  Author: Sofia Thompson

• Success is not measured by the speed in which you reach your destination, but by the strength of the foundation you build along the way.

  Author: Maya Johnson

• Success is not about climbing the ladder but building one that you can stand on.

  Author: Gabriella Rodriguez

• Embrace the challenges of today as they are building blocks for a brighter tomorrow.

  Author: Jessica Harper

• Success is not determined by the height of the pedestal but by the depth of the foundation.

  Author: Samantha Greene

• Success is not about climbing the ladder of excellence, but rather building your own staircase to greatness.

  Author: Stephanie Ramirez

• Success is not about reaching new heights, but building a strong foundation to withstand any storms that come your way

  Author: Samantha Lee

• Successful people build bridges, while others build walls.

  Author: Jessica Banks

• Success is not just about climbing the ladder; it's about building the ladder first.

  Author: Jennifer Kingston

• Success belongs to those who woodwork their dreams into reality.

  Author: Olivia Turner

• Build bridges instead of walls, for connections cultivate growth.

  Author: Olivia Lopez

• The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

  Author: Orville Wright

• The space within becomes the reality of the building.

  Author: Frank Wright

• 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.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

  Author: Robert Welch

• I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

  Author: George Wallace

• It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

  Author: Robert Venturi

• When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

  Author: Louis Sullivan

• It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

  Author: Louis Sullivan

• It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

  Author: Jim Sullivan

• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  Author: Anna Strong

• I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

  Author: Terry Semel

• So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

  Author: Gunther Schuller

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  Author: Gale Sayers

• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

  Author: Kelly Rowland

• Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

  Author: Don Rickles

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

  Author: Kenneth Rexroth

• The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

  Author: Janet Reno

• A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

  Author: Anthony Quinn

• The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

  Author: Donald Pleasence

• When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

  Author: John Otto

• Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

  Author: John Osborne

• I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.

  Author: Alex O'Loughlin

• Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

  Author: Larry Niven

• When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

  Author: Ben Nicholson

• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Author: Enid Nemy

• You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

  Author: Bob Nelson

• I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

  Author: Benito Mussolini

• A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

  Author: Nicholas Meyer

• Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

  Author: Murray Mann

• We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

  Author: Bill Maher

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

  Author: Juliette Lewis

• The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

  Author: Sonny Landham

• We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.

  Author: Emeril Lagasse

• Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

  Author: Rem Koolhaas

• Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

  Author: Lee Konitz

• The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.

  Author: Jack Kilby

• The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

  Author: Thomas Kempis

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

  Author: Thomas Keller

• There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

  Author: Arthur Keith

• Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

  Author: John Hutton

• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  Author: Kate Hudson

• Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

  Author: Jim Hightower

• When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

  Author: Florence Henderson

• We have to realize we are building a movement.

  Author: Dorothy Height

• Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

  Author: Hanoi Hannah

• I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

  Author: Mia Hamm

• I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

  Author: William Green

• It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.

  Author: Dexter Gordon

• Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

  Author: Andy Goldsworthy

• Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

  Author: Maurice Gibb

• When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

  Author: Al Franken

• I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

  Author: Tom Felton

• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  Author: Warren Farrell

• In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

  Author: Arthur Erickson

• You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

  Author: John Engler

• We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

  Author: Katherine Dunham

• Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

  Author: Thomas Dolby

• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Author: Rosa DeLauro

• The higher the building the lower the morals.

  Author: Noel Coward

• I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

  Author: Eric Cornell

• So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

  Author: Tommy Cooper

• I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

  Author: Guy Clark

• I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building.

  Author: Sarah Chalke

• There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

  Author: Eugene Chadbourne

• The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

  Author: John Carver

• I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

  Author: George Carlin

• Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

  Author: Fanny Burney

• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

  Author: Wilfred Burchett

• The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

  Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

  Author: Sandra Bullock

• We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.

  Author: Bill Bruford

• Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

  Author: Gordon Brown

• I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

  Author: Richard Branson

• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

  Author: Ray Bradbury

• There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

  Author: John Bolton

• The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

  Author: Earl Blumenauer

• I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

  Author: Ronald Biggs

• The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.

  Author: Justin Bieber

• For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.

  Author: Camilla Belle

• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

  Author: Dave Barry

• We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

  Author: Jim Barksdale

• What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

  Author: Benny Anderson

• But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

  Author: John Abizaid

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