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Building Quotes

On the work of making something last.

These lines treat building as deliberate effort, whether it's teachers shaping a classroom culture to mirror an organization's, or someone who has spent a career building companies from nothing. Related: Foundation.

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the...

Quotes by Richard Lamm

We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories.

Quotes by Richard Li

The case against Susan Rice has been building for years with little fanfare. Not surprising, the mainstream media reporters based at the U.N. have either ignored her mistakes or strategically covered them up.

Quotes by Richard Grenell

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

Quotes by Richard Attias

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

Quotes by Rene Burri

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.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

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.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

Quotes by Reggie Jackson

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Quotes by Raymond Kelly

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy...

Quotes by Raymond Sokolov

Here are the choices I don't want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Quotes by Ray Mabus

Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to set auto insurance pricing compounds racial discrimination and exacerbates wealth inequality.

Quotes by Rashida Tlaib

Our diaspora has an important role in building bridges between India and the world.

Quotes by Ram Nath Kovind

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Quotes by Ralph Ellison

Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn't going to fix it.

Quotes by Raja Krishnamoorthi

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

Quotes by Rachel Keller

Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to...

Quotes by Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

My confidence has been really building since my time at Espanyol.

Quotes by Philippe Coutinho

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Quotes by Philip Johnson

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about building culture in a classroom versus an organization?
Yes: "The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization." Growth quotes covers related themes of developing something over time.
Is there a real political quote about settlements and Israel?
Yes - one real, genuinely controversial quote states: "As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli." This is presented here strictly as that speaker's own stated opinion on a real geopolitical issue, not a fact or position this page endorses.
Is there a quote about working hard to build companies?
Yes: "I busted my butt all my life building companies." Foundation quotes has more on the effort behind building something from scratch.
Is there a short quote preferring building over managing?
Yes: "I enjoy building more than managing." It's a brief statement about a preference for creating rather than overseeing.
Where can I find more quotes about progress or structure?
Try Progress quotes or Structure quotes for related themes.

One touches geopolitics directly, tying continued settlement building to how a country is viewed abroad. See also Growth and Progress.