“Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800 years ago. What are we building today that will be here 800 years from now? If something like that emerged from this recession, it would help justify the hardship so many people are currently experiencing.” PeopleIfsYearsHelpingTodayStrongQualityBuildingDemandBuiltYears AgoEndureJustifyHardshipSustainabilityPointingSlidesPresentationRecessionsOxford Author:Denis Hayes
“An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.” ShouldLightEnergyBuildingGoes OnMetsStandardsPercentPerformancesAggressiveLoadConsumptionEfficiencyRequirementsLightingMortgagePlugsFurnacesAppliancesHeatingCoolingEnergy Consumption Author:Denis Hayes
“We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.” PeopleIfsWayIdeasUseSidesDangerousBuildingProjectsCreatingToolsAnd LoveInvestingGreat IdeaYourself And Love Author:Biz Stone
“When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.” ThinkingArtBuildingTwentiesStrikesConcretePostersTenants Author:Eric Drooker
“I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.” MenWantAbilityCitiesBuildingSwingsJumpingSpidersBeing CoolDivingSpider ManJumping OffFree Diving Author:Denzel Whitaker
“Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensMatterCareChristianSpaceStreetsBuildingCostAreasDistinctionTouchedUrbanJust LiveCastesNobody CaresUrban AreasBrahmins Author:Anita Rau Badami
“Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.” WorldWantChildrenEffortGreaterTearsBuildingOur ChildrenRejectionOur WorldBest EffortBuilding The Future Author:Barack Obama
“For me, one of my favorite parts of stop motion is not even the animating or the writing, but actually building. I always say that my favorite stage is just fabrication. It's just sitting on a workbench, making a little thing out of clay or whatever. That just totally excites me.” WritingLittlesStageBuildingSittingMy FavoriteLittle ThingsClayFabrication Author:Kirsten Lepore
“Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.” Has BeensMadeEnoughFactsNationsDifficultImpossibleBuildingInvolvedArgumentOkayIraqFocusedMade ItAfghanistanGet InvolvedPersuasiveNation Building Author:Michael Hastings
“For me, it's not about building bulk in my muscles; it's about staying tiny, strong, and lean.” StrongBuildingTinyMusclesStaying Author:Keauna McLaughlin
“One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.” PeopleVisionBuildingConsequenceExpectedBrandsChasingClicksBuilding A Brand Author:Astra Taylor
“It was a life with purpose. And it was also a lot of fun. Fishing is fun. Hiking up mountains is fun. Building a wall out of river rocks dug up from the bottom of a glacial lake is not fun. Not at all. But it does give a work ethic that you can take anywhere in the world.” WorldGivingDoePurposeFunRocksBuildingWallMountainEthicsRiversBottomLakesFishingPurpose Of LifeHikingWork Ethic Author:Leigh Newman
“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.” PeopleThinkingFeelsYearsMindHelpingFeelingsLastsOrderGoalHealingBehindsFourAchieveBuildingWallBehaviorEmptyAddictionBusyPatternsFocusedDecadesHelping OthersBarsCellsSubstanceAcquireNew ThingsFeel BetterNew GoalBuilding WallsFeeling Empty Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.” FirstsRunningLandBuildingSellingBeijingShanghai Author:Zhang Xin
“We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.” Would BeTodayValuesCultureEasyQualityHavensBuildingWallTestsTallSymbolicPyramidsTest Of TimeGreat WallBuilding Things Author:Zhang Xin
“I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.” ShouldYearsLittlesShowsTodayBuildingProudOne DayYears AgoMiracleImpactArchitectureGladSustainabilityModestGrandchildrenMy Grandchildren Author:Zhang Xin
“We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.” IfsWayJesusBehindsStepsDoorsBuildingWalkingLibraryLunchDowntown Author:Peter Jacobson
“The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .” AsksNamesSidesBuildingUniversityAthlete Author:Eddie George
“A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.” ShouldChildrenParentAttitudeFocusBuildingProgram Author:Timothy Carey
“You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.” StatesFilmSeeingNew YorkBuildingLatterEmpiresRealisticStarbucksEmpire State BuildingEmpire State Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“An artist's voice, communication, that's very important. The learning, the building of your energy to communicate deeper and deeper even without words, the expanse of your source-spark energy to reach people at deeper energy levels is very beautiful to learn about since it's our mission here as artists to help beings transcend limitations and any feeling, thing keeping their love down to show them that we are all artists with very special sides of energy light from the creator.” PeopleImportantHelpingShowsFeelingsLightBeautifulArtistEnergySidesVoiceLevelsSpecialBuildingCommunicationSourceCommunicateCreatorDeeperMissionsLimitationSparksVery BeautifulExpanseEnergy Levels Author:Giuseppe Andrews
“The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province where the panda sanctuary is based, and we climbed to this beautiful, mist-covered, almost primordial place and when we turned these corners these moss covered old buildings would come into view, revealing themselves and it was so beautiful and so unlike anything we'd seen that we literally took those moments and put them into the film [Kung Fu Panda 3].” MomentsBeautifulFilmFoundViewsBuildingMountainResearchCornersChinaVillageCoveredRevealingMistSanctuaryProvincesMossKung FuPandasOld BuildingsKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“If Hillary Clinton wants to back into the White House, then sure, she can do it like this, like in 1991, `92, the Clintons had decided, well, where are we going to be in spectrum in order to be president. But if she wants to be build up some mandate for an agenda, and actually going to accomplish that agenda, she would actually be smart to start building support for her now.” IfsWantWellsOrderHousePresidentCan DoWhiteSupportBuildingSmartDecidedClintonAccomplishAgendasWhite HouseSpectrumBeing SmartMandates Author:Ryan Grim
“Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.” ThinkingStillsStoriesBuildingSceneHardestBlockPlotHardest ThingBuilding Blocks Author:Dan Chaon
“I want to go to New Zealand so bad! I have amazing memories of being in that country, of jumping off of a building in Auckland and having so much fun.” WantCountryFunMemoriesBuildingJumpingNew ZealandJumping Off Author:Sean Mackin
“What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.” DoeGovernmentGroupsDangerousBuildingPoetHarderPoetry IsSensibilityOrganizeUndermining Author:Sam Hamill
“A lot of girls will do regular crunches, when that is building muscle in the middle of your stomach on top of - right in the middle area, where you might not want it to be. There's certain types of sit-ups and crunches and moves that kind of build the core set of your muscles inside. There's a different way of looking at exercise and optimizing it for the female body, if that makes sense.” IfsWayWantKindDifferentBodyMightMovingCertainGirlMiddleBuildingTypeExerciseAreasFemaleCoreMake SenseDifferent WaysMusclesStomachFemale BodyCrunch Author:April Rose
“As the Ambassador for WWF Earth Hour, I still vividly remember that there were only 80 buildings in China that participated the Earth Hour in its first year. Six years later, there were 170 cities and thousands of buildings that participated. We are still growing strong. I am encouraged by the accomplishments we have made together and they make me proud and more determined than ever.” YearsFirstsMadeStillsEarthTogetherRememberStrongHoursCitiesGrowingBuildingProudSixChinaDeterminedAccomplishmentAmbassadorsWwf Author:Li Bingbing
“I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I used to love to watch the birds nest. That political poem, or environmental poem, was unsuccessful because Safeway built there anyway. And yet the poem has something to say today, as it did then. And I speak here only of my own poems. The agenda for every poet has to be different because most of us write from direct human experience in the world.” WorldWritingHumansDifferentTodayPoliticalUsedSpeakMy OwnNumbersWatchesBuildingPoetHugeBirdBuiltDirectEnvironmentalUglyStoresAgendasHuman ExperienceNestsUnsuccessfulUsed To LoveLagoons Author:Sam Hamill
“I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy.” FeelsCountryFeltProcessBuildingDutyHumanitarianLegacyAssetsContinuingJordanPeace Building Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.” ReasonShowsTogetherSocialStuffCommunityBehindsCompanyBuildingIntentionEnvironmentalScoreWorking TogetherBalletBikeCollaboratingCommunity Building Author:Ben Sollee
“Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.” IfsHappensHouseBuildingDemandThings HappenRepresentativesCapitolHouse Of Representatives Author:Luis Gutierrez
“Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.” PeopleWayFactsPracticeAirBuildingMusicianCome UpApartmentSchedulesClassical MusicViennaCollide Author:Eric Weiner
“In general, I'm pretty busy with the other things I charted ... I bought a piece of a sports-tech company. We do a lot of work with at the Clippers. I think that'll be great. We're really looking at the possibility of extending and building a real over-the-top distribution channel with value-added services for the Clippers, that could lead to other partnerships and investments. But most of the stuff I'm looking at isn't because I say, "Hey, I want to invest." It sort of comes around from the work we're doing with the Clippers.” ThinkingWantRealValuesStuffSportsCompanyPiecesPossibilityBuildingInvestmentBusyHeyPartnershipDistributionExtendingOver The Top Author:Steve Ballmer
“If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.” IfsNeedsYearsMatterNaturalBuildingBillionsBlockDnaSelectionManipulateNatural SelectionSentient BeingsBuilding BlocksRna Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I do want to once again speak directly to the Iranian people. Yours is a great civilization with a vibrant culture that has so much to contribute to the world - in commerce and in science and in arts. For decades, your government's threats and actions to destabilize your region have isolated Iran from much of the world, and now our governments are talking with one another. Following the nuclear deal, you, especially young Iranians, have the opportunity to begin building new ties with the world.” PeopleWorldWantArtGovernmentActionYoungCultureOpportunitySpeakDealsTalkingBuildingCivilizationThreatFollowingDecadesNuclearTiesRegionsIranIsolatedCommerceIranian Author:Barack Obama
“And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.” SeeingCarBuildingIndustryGermanyJapanHorizonCocky Author:David Maraniss
“So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and poor public schools, but they are building momentum - you know, techies, foodies, artists, musicians, all coming to Detroit. So there is this vibrancy. You see it in the newspapers every day - some story about the new Detroit.” KnowsMeanStillsStoriesSchoolJobsArtistSufferingPoorCitiesBuildingMusicianNewspapersHousingPublic SchoolMomentumDetroitVibrancyTechie Author:David Maraniss
“Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.” YearsStillsCareSocialDealsPayMillionsAliveBuildingComfortArmyVictimDollarsSouthBillionsHealth CareJapanSurvivingKoreaSocial ServiceTraffickingBrothelsSouth Korea Author:Elise Hu
“I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.” ThinkingBuildingAuschwitzMgm Author:Charles Busch
“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.” ArtMadeShowsSeemsArtistViewsDesignObjectsBuildingMaterialsOrdinaryCaughtHumbleStatementsObsessionSupposed To BeMuseumsUnusualQuartersGood WorkRepetitionTriggersCouchesDebutNecklacesHandgunsReuse Author:Jerry Saltz
“To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.” LooksArtDesignBuildingBoxesLovelyHeatMuseumsJewelsShields Author:Jerry Saltz
“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.” ThinkingWritingBeautifulReadingModernBuildingReaderProjectsStonesTownsFolksArchitectureSovietHousingIdenticalPublic Housing Author:Christine Jennings
“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.” WholeDreamCitiesVisionCasesDesignBuildingHugeFitTownsStructureMassiveSchemesUtopianVersaillesFourierParallelogram Author:Christine Jennings
“I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.” PeopleYearsHas BeensArtCultureWalksStreetsEventsNew YorkBuildingNeighborPotMeltingBrooklynMelting PotBrooklyn New York Author:Erin Willett
“One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.” YearsMadeHomeEyeThreeMy OwnDecisionFiveWiseLandBuildingAreasPropertyPlanningBuyingPlotThree YearsPermissionBedroomWise DecisionRichmond Author:Anthea Turner
“I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.” Has BeensCharacterActorsProcessUnderstandingPleasureCareersBuildingPerspectiveDirectorsExploringVery DeepDeep Understanding Author:Karen Allen
“The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.” WantReasonAbleLosesAudienceRiskBuildingAspectActressesMainstreamElsewhereNudity Author:Amanda Seyfried
“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.” PeopleMenWorldMeanWholeGovernmentCan DoBuildingConcernedToolsInstruments Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph - you're sort of building up like that; that's my philosophy.” ThinkingMeanPhilosophyIndividualBuildingSentencesParagraphBuilding Up Author:Ann Goldstein