Building Things Quotes

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

You want to know how to be like indians? Live close to the earth. Get rid of some of your things. Help each other. Talk to the creator. Be quiet more. Listen to the earth instead of building things on it all the time.

American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.