“Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.” IfsShouldSuccessfulBuildingLunch Author:Jeffrey Gitomer
“I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.” PeopleShouldLittlesHas BeensEndsMatterNumbersBuildingMembersComputerRaisesCome UpTeaClockThe End Of The DayHallsSugarUnfairStaffSuppliesSupervision Author:John von Neumann
“We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.” ShouldMadeSpaceBuildingMoonShould HaveStationsFragile Author:Ray Bradbury
“I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.” ShouldLongDoneTermBuildingArchitectureExcluded Author:Arne Jacobsen
“Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the industrial revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.” ShouldSchoolAchieveBuildingRevolutionScalesSoftwareMaintainingIndustrial RevolutionInteractive Author:Naveen Jain
“Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.” ShouldFocusBuildingInnovationCloudsThanksGoogleInfrastructure Author:Urs Holzle
“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 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
“If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.” IfsShouldHelpingBuildingUnderstoodConsequenceDemocraticComplexesCampaignsGasCynicalCoalitionsCalculus Author:Ezra Klein
“I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to say, 'Tall buildings are great' why not just leave it at that: "Tall buildings are great."” IfsThinkingShouldWritingTryingStuffBuildingShould HaveWhy NotTallTall Buildings Author:Jonathan Meades
“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
“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
“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
“Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.” ThinkingGivingShouldPassionCommunityNaturalCreativeVirtueTalentBuildingCitizensNobilityCreative ThinkingCommunity BuildingNatural Talent Author:Marianne Williamson
“No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.” ShouldEnergyDesignBuildingHugeAmountArchitectImports Author:Christiana Figueres
“Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid. They should be using all of the natural light and natural heat.” NeedsShouldLightEnergyNaturalProduceBuildingHeatGridsNatural Light Author:Christiana Figueres
“There's always the sense that you should strike while the iron's hot and while there are all these opportunities, but that's not the way I get ideas. It has to be more organic, building up through living and through experiencing things.” WayShouldIdeasOpportunityBuildingHotStrikesIronBuilding UpExperiencing Things Author:Miranda July
“There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.” ShouldWholeJobsEnergyBuildingIndustryRight NowCreatingSmartFewerEfficiencyGridsEnergy Efficiency Author:Van Jones
“We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.” ShouldBuildingWallBarriersBreaking DownBuilding WallsBreaking Down Barriers Author:Ted Cruz
“School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.” ShouldSchoolUsedHoursFourBuildingTwentiesSchool Buildings Author:Nikki Giovanni
“I think it is fair to say that the end goal might be a demand yet your focus when building brands should rarely focus on this objective.” ThinkingShouldEndsMightGoalFocusBuildingDemandFairsObjectivesBrandsBuilding A Brand Author:Martin Lindstrom
“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
“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
“Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done.” ShouldMadeDoneClearBuildingWallTrumpRepublicanAgreeCongressSpeakers Author:Mark Halperin
“We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched in our careers. And, of necessity, we're earning a living, and it's taking our time, and we're building our résumé, and we want our résumé generally to be our proficiency within our field, because chances are we're going to be applying for another position within the field. So we tend to put off a lot of this sort of what I call parallel discovery until we're either very successful and have the time to do that, or more often until we're retired.” WantShouldLittlesChanceCareersSuccessfulOur LivesFieldsPositionBuildingActivityDiscoveryOur TimeEarningParallelsRetiredChances AreProficiencyEarning A Living Author:Darold Treffert
“We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.” PeopleShouldHomeCompanyBuildingTaxesCarbonFootprintCarbon Footprint Author:Philip Kotler
“Thoughts are like bullets. You should be aware when you walk into a building what energy is there, whose thoughts are there. People should realize when people think of you their thought is on you.” PeopleThinkingShouldEnergyRealizingWalksBuildingBulletsThink Of You Author:James Van Praagh