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Building Quotes

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.

– Pope Francis

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

– Hillary Clinton

Running up a steep hill or up steps are fantastic ways of building explosive strength.

– Greg Rutherford

I’ve never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

– Helmut Jahn

There’s an energy and excitement when you’re building a company. You have so much tail wind. You’re planting new seeds. But it’s also scary, because there’s no safety net.

– Howard Schultz

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

– Hillary Clinton

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

– Helmut Jahn

I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It’s like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there’s a house with somebody living in it.

– Harvey Mason, Jr.

I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. ‘Who authorized this?’ the principal would ask. The answer: ‘Howie Mandel.’

– Howie Mandel

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

– Gustavo Dudamel

When you’re building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can’t have two sets of information for two sets of people.

– Howard Schultz

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

– Helmut Jahn

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.

– Hanoi Hannah

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.

– Gunther Schuller

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

– George W. S. Trow

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

– Hans-Ulrich Obrist

During the 1950s, I decided, as did many others, that many practical problems were beyond analytic solution and that simulation techniques were required. At RAND, I participated in the building of large logistics simulation models; at General Electric, I helped build models of manufacturing plants.

– Harry Markowitz

When you’re a kid growing up, and you think you’re gay, you know that you’re different; you’re often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

– Greg Louganis

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn’t advance without challenging authority. It doesn’t make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

– Greg Graffin

I don’t believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

– Henry Rollins

I’ve been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I’ve been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

– Helen Clark

I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

– Gray Davis

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

– Harold MacMillan

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

– Howard Schultz

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

– Gregory H. Johnson

There’s a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn’t really my thing, maybe because I didn’t grow up playing RPG’s.

– Greg van Eekhout

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it’s not just a physical idea, it’s also an intellectual one.

– Helmut Jahn

We are creating a unique experience. It’s starts with how you see the building from a distance.

– Helmut Jahn

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.

– Guy Clark

It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re able to achieve the same result?

– Helmut Jahn

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