Building Foundation Quotes

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.

I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere.

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

I am the poster boy for brick-by-brick foundation building. Play a club. Put on a good show for 35 people. Come back. Build your market. Have people talk about you.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

I love the theater. I love the rehearsals. That's where you build a performance. That's your foundation. If you're gonna build a house, you start with the foundation. That makes the house strong. That's the way I build a character, from the foundation out.

I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.

When you build a house, you have to start from the floor. You have to start from the bottom, the defence, and then you fix the attack.

Then you have to convince the players and get them on board with what you are doing, and after that you can start to build. But the identity is the foundation for everything.