Build Quotes - page 14

I can't build myself by beating somebody down. (Bernie Mac)
Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build. View quote
Gregor von Rezzori
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect "basic" or "natural" properties of the environment, but that they should serve our "narcissistic" purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they're so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath. View quote
Deb Caletti
Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think. View quote
Dave Itzkoff
These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are. View quote
David Levithan
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. View quote
James Altucher
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking. (Jeffrey Gitomer)
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression. View quote
Gene Sharp
When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don't look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don't focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success. View quote
Jon Gordon
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl. View quote
Dorothy Koomson
At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction. View quote
Kim Cattrall
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself. View quote
Langston Hughes
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. View quote
Alan Rickman
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. View quote
Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. View quote
Linwood Barclay
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. View quote
Lissa Rankin
This faith, is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build himself a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again. (Lloyd C. Douglas)
You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won't change. View quote
Greg Mortenson
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. View quote
Dalai Lama
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. View quote
Jamie Dimon
If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it. View quote
Joyce Meyer