“When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.” PeopleWorldFirstsKindDifferentBigsRememberCertainCoursesCitiesKnownClearStreetsNew YorkBuildingHugeWalkingMetsLonelyTerrorCrowdsBroadwayFamiliarityNew YorkersCities In The WorldSo Lonely Author:Benny Goodman
“I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.” PeopleYearsTogetherFormBuildingMiceSmall ThingsGeometric Author:Claes Oldenburg
“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.” PeopleSportsBuildingTenBallsParksYankeesAvenuesStadiumsYankee StadiumYankee Fans Author:Reggie Jackson
“The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.” PeopleFirstsTogetherStudentsBuildingMoonWoundsExperimentsRocketsJetLabsAircraftFiringSpacecraftPropulsionPasadena Author:Ray Bradbury
“It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.” PeopleWantWritingIdeasStoriesSongProcessEnjoySeeingBuildingInstrumentsAddFinishedWriting ProcessVocal Author:Manika
“I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.” PeopleTryingCultureCommonRaceBuildingBridgesBuilderCommon GroundBuilding Bridges Author:T. D. Jakes
“I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.” PeopleMatterHelpingAchieveGreatnessBuildingConvincedHelping Each OtherGrabbingCollaborating Author:Alex Bogusky
“I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.” PeopleWantedBeautifulSituationBuildingOrdinaryEverydayPhotographAverageLandscapePortraitsOrdinary PeopleBeautiful PeopleDistressingEverymanBeautiful Landscapes Author:Ray Metzker
“So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.” PeopleThinkingWantFashionBuildingMountainModelsPhotographFashion Model Author:Rondal Partridge
“If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.” PeopleIfsLittlesWalksBehindsLeaderStreetsBuildingConcernGlassesGet BetterHidingSteelBodyguard Author:Bruce Boxleitner
“A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.” PeopleWorldMayFactsSoundBuildingWallFamiliarFacts Of LifeMoatsBuilding WallsNear And Far Author:Jon Meacham
“In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God, ... But the converse is also true: it is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people. Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam.” PeopleThinkingImportantForgetRolesBuildingFundamentalsIslamVariousDialogueBridgesLinksConversesPeace Building Author:Pope Francis
“If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsWarSchoolPresidentBuildingBridges Author:Liberace
“There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.” PeopleNeedsRealDemocracyIssuesFocusMilitaryDangerBuildingConflictDistracted Author:Ted Cruz
“Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings. And we should remember that. The crimes against humanity were perpetrated by people who were Arab Muslims.” PeopleShouldRememberPoliticalHumanityEnvironmentCrimeBuildingInjusticePlanesFlewCrimes Against Humanity Author:Robert Fisk
“I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.” PeopleWayTryingSpiritBuildingHappeningsAppealsFlagsGearsElectronic Music Author:Squarepusher
“It was a proud moment in giving me the confidence, that I was 'stamped' in the offices as much, you know, as I would get from the streets. To where it's like I'm getting the love from the streets and from the people in the building - and that's kinda dope.” PeopleKnowsGivingMomentsStreetsBuildingProudOfficeDopeProud Moments Author:Kid Ink
“It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.” PeopleIfsYearsSometimesHappensSchoolJobsClassTeacherMediaBuildingAidsDiscriminationIntenseWorriedGymTwelveHaitiGym Class Author:Edwidge Danticat
“The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the squarest place on earth. The latest evidence? A current military document that lists homosexuality as a mental disorder in the same league as mental retardation - noting, of course, the one difference: retarded people can still get into heaven.” PeopleStillsEarthAmericaCoursesHeavenDifferencesFiveMilitaryBuildingEvidenceCurrentsListsManageLeagueDisorderDocumentsHomosexualityHousingPentagonBrassRetardedMental DisorderMental Retardation Author:Jon Stewart
“We want to make nation-building a people's movement.” PeopleWantNationsMovementBuildingNation Building Author:Narendra Modi
“I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.” PeopleIfsKindAmericaDiesWealthPoorBuildingNot InterestedNaiveBuilding Wealth Author:Richard Armitage
“Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.” PeopleIfsMightLosesSituationLeaderTeamBuildingWheelsSpokesCollapseConnectingWagonsRimsHubWagon Wheels Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsMeanCountryMatterPoliticalUsedPartyTearsBuildingLimitsWeaponsMassDestructionDebtSillyReputationWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBuilding Up Author:Warren Buffett
“I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.” PeopleCommunityLove IsHonestBuildingReaderBeing HonestIntimateBuilding Community Author:James Altucher
“I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.” PeopleKindMightGrowsInterestTreeBuildingReputationEggsCall MeNestsBuilding UpFrugalKind People Author:Audrey Hepburn
“In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.” PeoplePersonsEnoughWholeProblemHappensResultsSecretCompanyShareBuildingSeriousDiedTraditionalSoftwareWitchcraftGuardedGuarding Author:Linus Torvalds
“Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.” PeopleTryingMindHumansHeartTodayIndividualCommunityChanceLevelsEffortSupportInfluenceBuildingTerribleConflictConsequenceHatredStructureDialogueIndifferenceHumankindIntoleranceNegotiationHeart And MindOngoingConfidence Building Author:Nelson Mandela
“I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.” PeopleWayWritingStepsFiguresBuildingSeriousTheoryManagementCategoriesCrucialScholarship Author:Clayton Christensen
“I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidEnoughWould BeRunningNumbersBuildingTheoryIndustryLuckyYears AgoOriginalsTrackExpectedRadicalFirmSchemesFoundersLapDistinguishedClassificationRadical ChangeIncremental Change Author:Clayton Christensen
“Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?'” PeopleWantYearsMindBuildingConversionArchitectKnocked DownLandmarks Author:Jonathan Meades
“People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.” PeopleTryingPersonsPiecesBuildingValuableSoftwareSingle Person Author:Bill Gates
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.” PeopleHeartStillsBuildingThousandTen Author:Mike Vallely
“The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.” PeopleStatesUnitedUnited StatesBuildingWallDignityGuiltyInsultAffront Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.” PeopleImportantCareLastsChallengesCitiesCreationBuildingSatisfying Author:Philip Johnson
“The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before.” PeopleMayHas BeensSelfKnownClassBuildingComfortableResourcesBrandsRangePromotionNetworkingSelf Promotion Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“We slowly work on getting more markets. We slowly work on building relationships. And over time once we gain people's trust and they see what we do and they see what we deliver each and every show, more and more people are interested in jumping on the Ring Of Honour train. I definitely think the success will continue.” PeopleThinkingShowsBuildingGainsTrainRingsHonourJumpingBuilding Relationships Author:Adam Cole
“The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.” PeopleCommunityChurchFourWonderfulBuildingGrewTiredReputationSundayPreachingCongregation Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?” PeopleDifferentNamesBuildingAspectAgreeKillingFlyingInnocentInterpretationAirplaneDifferent PeoplesUnifyingMuslim Faith Author:Madeleine Albright
“I also talk about building a wall and oftentimes I'll say, and there's going to be a big beautiful door in that wall and people are going to come into our country because we want people to come in. We want people to come into our country, but we want them to come in legally.” PeopleWantCountryBigsBeautifulDoorsBuildingWallOur Country Author:Donald Trump
“I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrated many times that just building railroads doesn't get you there. You need people ready to sue them.” PeopleNeedsFirstsClassMiddleBuildingReadyMassInternationalPopulationCriticalAidsMiddle ClassOutlookRailroadsCritical Mass Author:Charles R. Morris