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- Nov 07, 2020
Building Quotes
On the work of making something last.
These lines treat building as deliberate effort, whether it's teachers shaping a classroom culture to mirror an organization's, or someone who has spent a career building companies from nothing. Related: Foundation.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoyed working on a building site. I also worked for a couple of months in a mobile phone repair shop. That just wasn't me.
- Empire State
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a senior in college, I attended an inspiring conference at West Point called the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs, which paired political science majors with cadets in the hopes of building future civilian-military relationships.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.
- Building Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020