“I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.” PeopleBookWholeWrittenBuildingWindInstrumentsI RealizedExperimentsObsessedJustifyAbandonedSections Author:Danielle Dutton
“Part of being able to make great decisions around that and to really grow a business and scale a business, it also comes down to people. I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses - both The Trump Organization and my own - and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.” PeopleThinkingAbleGrowsGoalMy OwnDecisionTeamAchieveBuildingTrumpOrganizationScalesSupplementsBuilding A Team Author:Ivanka Trump
“I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.” PeopleRunningActionFacesStarsBuildingHealthyNormalFemaleVersionsExplosionsRippedFramedFugitive Author:Jenny Slate
“I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.” PeopleEnoughBeautifulThreeNextBornSpaceWonderfulBuildingReadyGeniusFlightDesertFortunatePrizeSpaceshipsWeird PeopleMojave Author:Richard Branson
“What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?” PeopleWellsMatterCareBuildingCustomersWhat MattersProfitableBuilding Something Author:Jason Fried
“The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.” PeopleWayTryingMediaBuildingMajoritySilentReportsDestroyingEmphasisSilent Majority Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsBigsRealityPastSocialDifferencesRecordsMediaBuildingBuiltBiggerHorseCamerasImpactPhotographSocial MediaOur FamilyVisualsCoveredHistorianPortraitsInstagramAdvent Author:Chuck Klosterman
“In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.” PeopleEndsMatterWantedValuesShareBuildingMeaningfulMotivatedWhat MattersMeaningful WorkMeaningful Relationship Author:Ray Dalio
“Just the same as I mix each track to connect them together to build a story, it's the same with the message, each scripture and passage is building up a story and a testimony in a way that's going to connect with people.” PeopleWayStoriesTogetherBuildingMessagesTrackScripturePassagesTestimonyBuilding Up Author:Robert Hood
“When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They're the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don't care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.” PeopleIfsMayCareRunningOne ThingBuildingComputerSellsDon't CareChiefsChairsOfficersInvestorsLoanPackagesBankersGullible Author:Michael Hudson
“What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.” PeopleFeelsTogetherEnergySocialFeltStruggleMovementPossibilityBuildingConnectedWorking TogetherIsolatedWorthlessDisconnectedSocial Movements Author:Eve Ensler
“A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing what we want to build, it's not how it's supposed to be built, but what we want to build. I think it makes everything easy for us to stay focus and have that tunnel vision.” PeopleThinkingWantEasyVisionKnowingFocusBuildingBuiltSupposed To BePhasesTunnelsBlueprintsTunnel Vision Author:B.J. The Chicago Kid
“We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.” PeopleIfsStatesGovernmentWould BeUnitedUnited StatesImagineGroupsMilitaryBuildingShotsScaredScaryFlyingOfficialsInjuredTurkishDiscountsArtillery Author:Barack Obama
“Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually methodologically written out the Communists because, when an uprising takes place, you don't necessarily see red flags everywhere.” PeopleIfsWritingWrittenBuildingRedPreparationCommunistFlagsUprisingRed Flags Author:Vijay Prashad
“It's not that big a mystery about types. It's not even that big a mystery why so many people are picking up on things now. It's like we were talking about the primitive thing before and all that. Nothing has really changed much. The things that have changed are like we're on the noon now. There are more buildings now. But we're still basically two monkeys sitting here.” PeopleStillsTwoBigsTalkingMysteryChangedBuildingTypeSittingPrimitiveMonkeysNoon Author:Van Morrison
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsYearsHumansChildrenWarJobsLastsUsedDesirePeaceLeaderChangedBuildingSafetyShelterGood JobWorld LeaderLove Of MoneyWaging WarDesire Love Author:Jim Clifton
“There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.” PeopleWayHardEvilProcessLinesSimplePrinciplesCreativityDesignBuildingDevelopmentNeededInvolvedIntellectualRootsDifficultySignificantPracticalsSoftwareEngineeringUnderestimateAssemblyInvolvingSoftware DevelopmentAssembly Line Author:Bjarne Stroustrup
“When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.” PeopleStillsIdeasDoneSchoolCitiesHavensDesignBuildingPlanningUrbanHomeworkIconicCity PlanningUrban Design Author:Frank Gehry
“Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.” PeopleYoungLeaderStudentsBuildingSouthEastTiesHopefulCooperationInitiativeAsian Author:Barack Obama
“To my mind, to say that says to young people "and you probably are not going to get out of debt, and you probably do not have a climate that's going to be here come 2050." And, in my view, the point is not necessarily to win now but it's to begin building our power.” PeopleMindYoungWinningViewsBuildingClimateDebt Author:Jill Stein
“Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible.” PeopleWayLooksKindStatesDreamAbleTogetherCultureUnitedUnited StatesBuildingHopefullyInnovativeIconsPyramidsLiving TogetherPharaohs Author:Barack Obama
“The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.” PeopleKnowsWayDoeHas BeensBigsArtistCompanyCreativityKnow HowCreativeTeamTalentBuildingModelsAreasHollywoodTraditionalAdvertisingManageAgencyCreative PeopleCreative ArtAdvertising AgenciesAdeptCreative ArtistsCoca ColaCreative Team Author:John Kao
“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.” PeopleFormSpaceShareFashionBuildingDevelopmentArchitectureFurnitureProceduresTactile Author:Donna Karan
“In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.” PeopleSaidHomeBodyPastBeautifulUsedFrontsBuildingTheaterDenialVacationDisplayColonialismOur PastThreatenedBrazilDowntownPosingRioOld BuildingsBakeries Author:Sonia Braga
“There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.” PeopleTeachSubjectsBuildingPhotographSeekingSettingSettingsConsumedWorkshops Author:Sam Abell
“In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.” PeopleUsedViolenceBuildingTownsForgottenRussiaWanderGenerousEasternAlcoholismWandering Around Author:Ewan McGregor
“The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.” PeopleLooksMadeWantedFilmCertainAsksDealsHappenedExampleBuildingFinishedImpressionFancyConstructionKoreaNorth KoreaUnder ConstructionCityscapes Author:Werner Herzog
“It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.” PeopleIfsWorldHappensBuildingProductsStandardsWinnerReasoningDescriptionImproving Author:Cathy O'Neil
“Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The little things that had been taught to me about the African people, that they were "heathens," "savages," and they were just downright stupid people. But when I got to Guinea, we were greeted by the Government of Guinea, which is Black People - and we stayed at a place that was the government building, because we were the guests of the Government.” PeopleLittlesRealityGovernmentBlackStupidBuildingTaughtLittle ThingsBlack PeopleGuestsSavagesStupid PeopleHeathenGuinea Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“The underlying issue is the system of capitalism itself, and under this system the best means for regulating or checking their power is not relying on a government which represents the interests of the rich but for millions of working people to become politically active in workplaces and communities through building unions and our own political party.” PeopleMeanGovernmentPoliticalInterestCommunityPartyMillionsIssuesRichBuildingCapitalismUnionsActiveWorkplacePolitical Parties Author:Kshama Sawant
“I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over the place working on this and that there's a great deal of solidarity around the world and we should try to build this big, sprawling movement that looks like the kind of energy system that we want - building lots of solar panels on lots of rooftops that are all interconnected.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantShouldTryingLooksKindBigsGuyEnergyDealsAdviceMovementBuildingAround The WorldWhere You AreSolidarityInterconnectedRooftopsSolar Panels Author:Bill McKibben
“After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.” PeopleJobsCoursesWinningBuildingConcernMeetingsSeekingBridgesBuilding Bridges Author:Keith Ellison
“We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.” PeopleTalkingBuildingOrdinaryShopsOwnersVillageOrdinary PeopleHousing Author:Gary Hustwit
“In some ways, you do lose a bit of freedom but as you get older, you might realize that you've met someone pretty cool - maybe a soulmate - so you're getting released from the endless pursuit of going out and trying to meet new people. So now you get to put your energy into building something that's longer lasting and a bit more meaningful.” PeopleWayTryingMightEnergyBitsRealizingLosesBuildingMetsMeaningfulPursuitEndlessLastingGoing OutSoulmateMeeting New PeopleBuilding Something Author:Andrew W.K.
“As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenLongWould BeHouseWaitingBlackWhiteSituationLeaderConditionsDangerousBuildingMassSatisfiedWhite ManComplacentBuilding UpDisserviceWait For HimDangerous Situations Author:Malcolm X
“When we launched our [ Vogue] site around five years ago, I had already started this process on paper. We are now building an enormous portfolio of photos, we've uploaded two million photos and we have three people that review them.” PeopleYearsTwoThreeProcessMillionsFiveBuildingPaperYears AgoEnormousFive YearsReviewsSiteVoguePortfolios Author:Franca Sozzani
“Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.” PeopleYearsSaidWarDoneHelpingKidsYoungThreeCausesStuffMorningFourBuildingCoupleMarriedResearchDecidedScientistUniversityBlowConvincedRighteousnessAnti WarThey SaidBeing DoneArmstrongWisconsinVietnamese Author:Nat Hentoff
“The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"” PeopleTwoDifferentWould BeArtistWalksStreetsBuildingIndustryHotCorporateDifferent ThingsTwo Different Things Author:Chamillionaire
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindImportantKidsUsedHumanityStuffUnderstandingTeachFireBuildingDepthArchitectureFuel Author:Frank Gehry
“A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so many other African countries wanted to, and, in any case, South Africa would continue to play a role in terms of building the African Union, and so on. And they actually said, please don't field a candidate, and we didn't. As I have said, it is not because we didn't have people who are competent to serve in these positions.” PeopleShouldSaidCountryPlayWantedTermNumbersRolesCasesFieldsPositionBuildingPleaseUnionsSouthCandidatesSouth AfricaRequestCompetentAfrican Union Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayTwoWarWholePastTechnologyDemocracyTakenGenerationsBuildingAchievementFindingsInstitutionsStructureExtraordinaryDecadesWhole WorldGrantedPostsWar Of The WorldsRemarkableWorld War IiWorld War IAlliancesTaken For GrantedPost WarExtraordinary Achievement Author:David Frum
“I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsWarHomeCareSchoolJobsNationsBrainExampleBuildingResourcesStressDecadesPostsBridgesInjuryDisorderVeteranGood JobRebuildingNation BuildingBack To WorkOur VeteransPost Traumatic Stress DisorderBrain InjuryTraumatic Brain Injury Author:Barack Obama
“[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.” PeopleThinkingWellsAbleProcessVisionBuildingTrumpTestsOrganizationBuilding Up Author:Barack Obama
“I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.” PeopleIfsFeelsYearsWellsI CanTwoProblemCuttingStreetsBuildingYears AgoMy FavoriteExcuseCornersBlockShopsHotelDisabilityHostilityDisabledCurbStreet CornersPeople With DisabilitiesOld Buildings Author:Itzhak Perlman
“Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not been participating. It's a correlation, not a causation as far as the statisticians go, but the fascinating question is; Is there something in participation in sports, in community-building, confidence building, self-image-building, strength building, social networking - that greatly enhance employability?” PeopleSelfAgeThreeSocialSportsCommunityBuildingFascinatingOlympicsParticipationEmployedThree TimesNetworkingSocial NetworkingParticipatingSocial NetworkCorrelationStatisticianCausationConfidence BuildingCommunity BuildingBuilding ConfidenceSocioeconomic Status Author:Timothy Shriver
“We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.” PeopleThinkingGivingPersonsAbleEnergyBuildingHugeWallAmountMetsPicksVideoMakeupTapeElectricityCarbon Author:Peter James
“I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again.” PeopleThinkingKindWholeTogetherGuySocialStuffChanceBuildingEuropeMissionsCorporateNegotiationBelgians Author:Irvine Welsh
“Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.” PeopleMeanMadeEndsCountryEyeWantedAmericaHateCultureLeftWaitingTeachHappenedSpecialTearsBuildingProudDiversityRacismResponsibleSticksFoundingMaintainingAmerican CultureXenophobiaSpecial Places Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.” PeopleWorldWellsHardCareSchoolAmericaStrongNationsSupportEconomyBuildingMembersFundamentalsIncludingUniversityHealth CarePublic SchoolDistinguishedAffordableFamily MembersHealth Care SystemAffordable Care ActHard Days Author:Joaquin Castro