Building Quotes - Page 2

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

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

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.