“Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.” YearsGovernmentBuildingProjectsDisillusionmentSailboat Author:Amity Shlaes
“I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.” ChildrenReasonBuildingProjectsRadioEngineeringElectricityInvolvingElectricalElectrical Engineering Author:Koichi Tanaka
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” LifePlayWholeTogetherScienceTechnologySupportTeamBuildingProjectsWorking TogetherWorking ItTeamworkCollaborationCooperationOrchestraSymphonyTeam BuildingProject ManagementTeam WorkInspirational TeamBest TeamGreat TeamTeamwTeam WorkingBuilding A TeamCooperation TeamworkInspirational TeamworkCooperation And TeamworkMotivational TeamworkBasketball TeamworkInspirational Team BuildingWinning TeamImportance Of TeamworkLeadership TeamworkTeam GoalSymphony OrchestrasTeam Work InspirationalTeamwork In EducationGreat TeamworkTeam LeadershipTeamwork And LoveTeam Building InspirationTeamwork And LeadershipTeam CollaborationCooperation And CollaborationTeam ManagementTeam Work MotivationalInspiring Team BuildingGreat Team BuildingGreat Team WorkTeam LeaderFunny TeamworkTeam WinningFunny TeamTeam BondingTeamwork Athletic Author:Halford Luccock
“I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.” ThinkingKnowsMeanLittlesEndsBuildingProjectsPagesDrawsFinishedDrawingDamnWheelsThe End Of The DayKeep GoingPensScribbles Author:Frank Gehry
“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.” IfsWorldWantChildrenSelfPlayFeelingsSelf EsteemBuildingProjectsCreatingCapacityStructureEnormousEsteemInternals Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
“We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.” ArtFunBuildingProjectsCancerSpaceshipsAsanaArt Projects Author:Justin Rosenstein
“If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsBelieveIdeasI BelieveBuildingExpressionProjectsArchitectureDrawingNo IdeaArchitect Author:Lebbeus Woods
“As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.” WorldStatesEnergyGrowthCitiesShareDesignBuildingOffersProjectsSmartSolutionsSafetyCleanEnvironmentalLocalsManageCodeOfficialsEfficientUrbanInnovativeTransportationMayorsClean EnergyGridsUrban Design Author:Robert Hormats
“Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.” ArtistNightProcessRoomsGoneBuildingProjectsSittingStonesTemperatureCollectingDay And NightStressful Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.” PeopleKnowsSimpleBuildingProjectsTablesKitchenHobbiesTubesKitchen Table Author:Robert Moog
“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.” EndsMovingJoyMotherPurposeUnderstandingHoursRoomsNumbersHalfDesignBuildingProjectsSummerModelsStructureSizeFinishedTinyGradesDevicesNutsMetalsAirplaneFourthPlasticCriteriaLiving RoomBoltsKindergartenFourth GradeNuts And BoltsMoving PartsHappy HourWarships Author:Steven Chu
“These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.” IfsMenMayLittlesWholePastLosesWhiteWalksCuttingStreetsBuildingWallProjectsScaryAssJournalCeoGangRuthlessBlinkArthurHaulWall Street Journal Author:Wanda Sykes
“When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.” WantedSchoolYoungActorsStarsRealizingCrazyBuildingMonthsProjectsExcitedArchitectureI RealizedComing OutMovie StarVogueNycEach MonthArchitecture School Author:Tom Ford
“I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector.” PeopleGovernmentBuildingProjectsPrisonEverydayLibraryMuseumsCampusCasinosPublic Sector Author:Philip Freelon
“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.” YearsLongHas BeensGovernmentMightPastCasesIssuesTakenFiveBuildingProjectsLong TimeSevenAverageAcceptedApprovalSeven YearsFunding Author:I. M. Pei
“Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I studied the more I realized where the best Islamic buildings were.” DoeCountryOne ThingBuildingProjectsDrawsIslamArchitectureI RealizedDesertIslamicJust BeingQatarEmiratesIslamic Faith Author:I. M. Pei
“Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.” TwoChallengesNew YorkBuildingProudProjectsUniversityTallHousingTall Buildings Author:I. M. Pei
“I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that.” KindWarDoneMomentsReadingEasyLinesRoomsActingSituationMinutesBuildingReaderProjectsCasts Author:Jim Cummings
“And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So, in identifying a project like Dovekeepers, looking at something like Extant and looking at Under the Dome, it was about falling in love with a piece of material, getting excited by the creative direction, hearing a vision, and getting excited about the potential for those projects and building the business model around it. And they're not all modeled the same way. Every one is different.” WayDifferentFallVisionCreativePiecesAirBuildingMaterialsProjectsModelsOriginalsFalling In LoveExcitedHearingProgrammingIdentifyingBusiness ModelsDomes Author:Nina Tassler
“This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.” IfsWantGivenHalfSupportBuildingMaterialsProjectsEvidenceResourcesMethodAvailableMilesStatisticsDictatorshipScientific Evidence Author:Jacque Fresco
“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
“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
“To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.” BigsGrowthCompanyBuildingProjectsCaliforniaBuyingExecutivesLos AngelesWarehouseExecutive Power Author:James Pearse Connelly
“As an organisation [Not for Sale] we use social media on a daily basis as a way to share the impact of how our support is having on individuals and communities. By building awareness, education and updating interested parties on the progress of the projects.” WayUseIndividualSocialCommunityPartySupportProgressShareAwarenessMediaBuildingProjectsBasesImpactSocial MediaOrganisation Author:David Batstone
“Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!” WellsStillsMovingUsedTurnsStuffNumbersHalfCompanyEventsBuildingPleaseProjectsMovedBlockUsed To BeQuartersHeroicBellsTelephonesBricksOperatorsHeadquarters Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].” WholeEnergyBuildingProjectsMachinesTradeChinaWideNuclearSpheresJointsLogisticsNuclear Energy Author:Vladimir Putin
“Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.” GrowingBuildingProjectsChinaBridgesCooperationScopeBuilding RoadsRegional Cooperation Author:Vladimir Putin
“Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.” HouseMorningBuildingProjectsClockNails Author:Frank Zappa
“One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.” WorldNeedsHardDoneLastsAmericaEnergyNationsChallengesEconomyExampleBuildingProjectsIraqDecadesExperimentsAround The WorldDevelopingAfghanistanNeglectedEducation SystemNation Building Author:Barack Obama
“People feel that building a rocket for Mars is an exciting project, but if you see the refugees around the world and the millions of homeless people, then for me it's insulting that people are fantasizing about leaving planet Earth and going wherever.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsEarthMillionsBuildingPlanetsProjectsExcitingLeavingAround The WorldMarsHomelessRefugeeRocketsInsultingPlanet EarthHomeless People Author:Pedro Reyes
“As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.” KindHelpingKidsFatherHouseBuildingPaintingProjectsBuiltPainterCinemaShopsBuilding Things Author:David Lynch
“I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.” PeopleWantGivingYearsLongTwoHomeRememberWealthPovertyGoneEconomicBuildingProjectsCrisisCome UpRemoveTwo YearsHospitalsWipePhilippinesRemember MeMarcosEconomic Crisis Author:Imelda Marcos