Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.
Ayanna Pressley
CommunityServiceBuildingOrganizing
I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
WorkI AmPeopleBuildingThink
We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.
Anna Lindh
PeaceBuildingPartnershipsFighting
Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.
Brad Feld
OpportunityTeamBuildingHelpYou
You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next will they want us to labour? Where is the next place they will take us? Why do we not focus on building our own economies and societies? We need to put all hands on deck to get our economies to function at a higher level.
Hilary Beckles
FutureFocusPeopleBuildingBlack
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
Elia Kazan
LifeMyselfI AmTheatreBuilding
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
Minoru Yamasaki
WordsBuildingLookMustPieceEach
I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.
Niels Arden Oplev
BuildingMoreHumanSuspenseThan
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Alexander McCall Smith
BuildingSocietyMannersBasicCivil
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
I. M. Pei
GoodPracticeBuildingThinkLearn
We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
Anita Borg
HistoryBuildingImpactPolitical
When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
Bob Parsons
EducationBusinessBuildingProcess
Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.
Gillian Tans
BusinessHeartStay FocusedBuilding
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
Benazir Bhutto
FutureLiePeopleDemocracyBuilding
The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.
Mitch Landrieu
GovernmentBuildingEngineeringDone
The case against Susan Rice has been building for years with little fanfare. Not surprising, the mainstream media reporters based at the U.N. have either ignored her mistakes or strategically covered them up.
Richard Grenell
MistakesBuildingMediaUpRiceHer
I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.
Alan Gerry
SuccessHomeMovingNightBuilding
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
Ian Mcewan
StrengthConfidenceBuildingThink
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.
Andy Goldsworthy
DayNightBuildingProcessSitting
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Arthur Erickson
ArchitectureBuildingThinkYouWay
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Helmut Jahn
SimplePeopleBuildingJudgeFind
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
bell hooks
ArtIdentityWorldBuildingThinking
I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.
Mindy Grossman
PassionVisionTeamBuildingThink
In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.
Richard Attias
OrganizationBuildingKeyThinking
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