"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."
- Benjamin Franklin
Hard Work
"Building is about getting around the obstacles that are presented to you."
- Jeremy Renner
Overcoming Obstacles
"You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it requires people to make the dream a reality."
- Walt Disney
Teamwork
"We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us."
- Winston Churchill
Influence
"Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design."
- Stephen Gardiner
Belief in Self
"You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Learning from Mistakes
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
- David Allan Coe
Achievement
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
- Charles Dickens
Philosophy
"Create with the heart; build with the mind."
- Criss Jami
Creativity
"When we build, let us think that we build forever."
- John Ruskin
Vision
"It is not the beauty of the building you should look at: it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
- David Allen Coe
Philosophy
"The road to success is always under construction."
- Lily Tomlin
Success
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
- David Allan Coe
Perseverance
"You can use an eraser on the drafting table, or a sledgehammer on the construction site."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Learning from Mistakes
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Learning from Mistakes
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
- Frank Gehry
Inspiration
"Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things."
- Peter Zumthor
Creativity
"I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds."
- Jiminez Lai
Philosophy
"I call architecture frozen music."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Philosophy
"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."
- Adrienne Clarkson
Contribution
"Use the best possible materials, and reveal the quality of those materials and the craftsmanship of their assembly."
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Hard Work
"A world which sees art and engineering as divided is not seeing the world as a whole."
- Professor Sir Edmund Happold
Philosophy
"A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured."
- Louis Kahn
Vision
"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
- John Ruskin
Balance
"I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success."
- Wilbur Wright
Determination
"The door handle is the handshake of the building."
- Juhani Pallasmaa
Connection to Earth
"The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building."
- Louis Kahn
Inspiration
"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."
- Billy Graham
Personal Growth
"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."
- Douglas Coupland
Reflection
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."
- Leo Aikman
Motivation
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them."
- Federico Garcia Lorca
Inspiration
"If you build it, they will come."
Motivation
"Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people."
Philosophy