Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Construction. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Construction Quotes And Sayings by 95 Authors including Matthew B. Crawford,Ryan Mark,Adrienne Clarkson,Jerry I. Porras,Walter Gropius for you to enjoy and share.

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Architects face this threat, but builders don't.
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Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
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For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.
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Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.
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To build you need vision;
to sustain you need strength.
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When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.
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Architects design houses. I live in a home.
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You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.
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The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.
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I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.
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What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
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I am going to design ... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
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The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security
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I built it all by myself : My Country.
Petra Hermans
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Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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I want to build some thing permanent.
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I just like to build things and do things.
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With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
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I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I think I've never had more fun. I'm just enjoying my life.
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Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how
to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.
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To build is to be robbed.
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My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost, It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use, When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.
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Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
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The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.
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based on what the wind does, we build
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I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
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Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
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Masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected
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Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
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Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?
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For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
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When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.
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All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury yacht;
other times, it'll be a rowboat. You still have to make sure the thing doesn't spring a leak.
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In many ways it's like a home improvement project: You don't know what you're getting into. You uncover problems you didn't know you had. You have to make multiple calls to your friend, the Carpenter, for help. And it usually takes longer than you think it will take.
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I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'
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To build something, you need sirious people. There aren't any such, or my luck is that I don't find them!
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I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.
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Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.
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If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
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First we build the tools, then they build us.
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Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
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Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.
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Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.
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Those who build are greater than those who tear down.
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Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.
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My life: under construction, but beautiful.
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What I cannot build. I do not understand.
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We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
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My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now - our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.
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Building a boat is about ten times more work than you think it could possibly be.
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Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
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When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.
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I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.
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I'm the guy who puts projects together.
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I am but an architectural composer.
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A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in.
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Ruins can be rebuilt.
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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there ... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.
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In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.
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I have discovered in my life that it is more challenging to build than to maintain.
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As architects we have a responsibility
to society
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius ...
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If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.
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For me, architecture is a social act,
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Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of - stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper - won't last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What
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The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
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I put projects together. I put people together.
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It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
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The road to success is always under construction
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Architecture is a way of life
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When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary
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My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.
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When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
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We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.
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I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.
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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
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I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.
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I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Buildings have been made because of man.
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A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
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If you build it well, a satisfaction comes
An honor to say I built that with fidelity,
Purpose, value and integrity
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Image the whole, then execute the parts - Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!
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Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
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I enjoy building more than managing.