Building Quotes - Page 9

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

WAIT TILL THEY SEE THESE ARMS IN AFRICA. THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME

Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day.

What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.