Top 494 Build Quotes

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Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly

Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter – with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn’t the right way to proceed.
Henry Spencer
From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
Adam Grant
See in old days, there were only two parties nationally, Congress and BJP… Now there are regional leaders. Time has come to pick up regional leaders in these national parties and build political campaign around them who can challenge regional parties.
Amarinder Singh
My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I – they are what I build my world around.
Rob Lowe
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Pam Grier
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
Seymour Cray
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
David Suzuki
If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.
Lawrence Lessig
I’d rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.
Travis Fimmel
I was on ‘SVU’ for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don’t do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
B. D. Wong
I have a view that if you build something that’s good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
Adam D’Angelo
There’s no big secret to training. But different body, different training. With me, you have to build muscles but also stay flexible and stay kind of soft, which I am naturally.
Alexander Zverev
I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British, it didn’t get us to the moon, build our nation’s highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.
Cory Booker
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it’s kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen
The sofa is a really important investment for anybody, and I don’t mean financially. You need to find a really great sofa that can transition with you, and you can build from there.
Jeremiah Brent
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Anselm Kiefer
I look for ways to try to build the sport, ways to put more fans in the seats and more money in our pockets.
B. J. Penn
Just, you know, you can’t put bread in a cold oven. You know, you’ve got to take your time. You’ve got to heat it up. So that’s what, that’s what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
Isaac Hayes
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
Bayard Rustin
Build something, make something, test something, sell something. Learn for yourself if your idea is a good one.
Marc Randolph
It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
Rahm Emanuel
Roblox is not only free to play, but free to build.
David Baszucki
Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime.
Natalya Neidhart
You’re pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
Jenson Button
We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life – and we are proud, so very proud.
Meir Kahane
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
Sam Harris
It’s difficult wherever I go. They don’t build anything for big people. They have everything for blind people, for cripple people, for some other people, but not for big people.
Andre The Giant
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
It is ridiculous to think we can erase racism in South Africa, but through theater there can be a genuine attempt to move on with our lives and build a better country.
John Kani
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We’ll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
Ralph Merkle
The most important thing is the indigenous people are n

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody – but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
Evo Morales
Immigration is the most difficult issue I’ve ever dealt with, and I’ve dealt with some tough issues: drones, gays in the military, WikiLeaks, Guantanamo. But immigration is hardest because there are so few people willing to talk and build consensus. Everybody’s firmly made up their mind. It’s a polarized issue.
Jeh Johnson
Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber – reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian – the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.
Isaac Yeffet
I’m like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
Andrew Lincoln
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas
When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
Bonnie Wright
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
Fatema Mernissi
When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people – they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.
Antonio Guterres
I have joined bipartisan working groups and worked to build relationships and sponsor effective legislation with my Republican colleagues.
Abigail Spanberger
The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.
Mark Zuckerberg
One can go to war alone, but you can’t build peace alone.
Jacques Chirac
I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I’m sold.
Rachel Bilson
When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.
Sachin Bansal
We’re not in the business of putting up barriers; that’s the job of politicians. They’re the idiots who want to build walls between people.
Danny Carey
I’m encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.
Sugata Mitra
Throughout my work as a state legislator and member of Congress since 2002, I have worked as hard as I could to build bridges. I’ve worked to combat anti-Semitism and confront Holocaust denial. I’ve organized dozens of meetings to promote interfaith dialogue and joint projects.
Keith Ellison
One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we’ll build a better world today.
Mae Jemison
I think when we build something we love and that others love, then we have done our job.
Craig Federighi
You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
In Europe, they’re more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.
Helmut Jahn
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Dominique Pire
A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.
Bjarke Ingels
Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.
Eric Schneiderman
It’s a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.
Eric Ries
Bad habits are easy to slip into and good habits are very easy to build. Don’t allow yourself to do something that can destroy you.
Milind Soman
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I’m trying to build something where people will go every day.
Max Levchin
We can’t afford to compromise on anything we have fought for – abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.
Deb Haaland
When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.
Ralph H. Baer