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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Ever since I was two, I’ve loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

New ideas must use old buildings

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

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views

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

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

If you don’t have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals – they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

Accuracy builds credibility.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

Men are built, not born…. Give me the baby, and I’ll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood…. I’ll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.

The thing that’s most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It’s the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That’s a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.

People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

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.

Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world.

Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can’t stop doing, we love it so much.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we’re building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.