Builder Quotations

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

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We're seeing shrinking builder profit margins, and more and more incentives being offered to attract buyers. That's an indication of a shift to a buyers' market.

What we decided to do ... was visit houses in which people had lived for a year, to find out exactly how they used those spaces, and see whether that reality was the same as that portrayed in builder model homes.

Making a catch like that with that amount of time left in a hostile environment, it's definitely a confidence builder because I was able to help our team keep its dream alive.

I would definitely expect more of it. Buyers may not pay for it. The seller or builder may pay for it to get a house sold.

Cellar Roots has great potential. We want to continue publishing EMU students' writing and artwork. It is important as a resume builder as well as a source for gaining writing and publishing experience. It is an important part of our mission to continue doing this.

I lost my poise a little, but it was frustrating. I thought it came after the buzzer. It feels like we always have a bullseye on our back. That was a big momentum builder for them. In a big game like this I wish they would let the kids decide the game.

If the builder is going to try and resell in a couple of years, he is not going to build a slum. Ten years ago, affordable housing accounted for 80 percent of the market; today, it's only 5 percent. We need affordable housing. And this is going to be a way to get people into housing affordably.

.He is arguably one of the leading authors, one of the most important advocates, the leading builder of consensus, the leading voice of reasoning and good sense that has enabled the birth of the Caribbean Single Market and the Caribbean Court of Justice.

He is a consensus builder who spent a long career with the Bureau of Reclamation and then agreed to join my team to lead the bureau as commissioner. He will be missed.

To come here to Miami and win this tournament is a great confidence builder for our young team.

Going in, we were kind of shaky a little bit. How were we going to play? What's going to happen here? The way it evolved, now, we have a much better feel for ourselves. That confidence builder will help a lot as we go to Worcester.

He's playing like an animal. He's capable of scoring a bucket any time he wants. He's a tremendous athlete. It's a huge help - a confidence builder - knowing he's there whenever we need him.

Green home building is at a tipping point among the builder population. The data we recently collected indicates 2006 to 2007 is the time frame from which the builder population moves from a majority less involved to more involved with green building.

Green home building is at a tipping point among the builder population.

I think a reduction in 2005 was mostly because of the absence of supply of lots. Quite a few of my builder friends are out of land.

I was working as a builder in Colchester three or four years ago a construction worker as you'd put it. Basically, the building work was feeding my habit of darts, earning me a wage when I couldn't quite make it. On weekends I'd go to tournaments and started getting a little better until I had a decent sponsorship. I concentrated fully on darts two and a half years ago.

Just getting to the line and making free throws is a confidence builder in itself. It keeps the defense honest.

Nan will bring a no-nonsense, take no prisoners approach to the Senate. She can be a strong coalition builder or fiery opponent. I have no doubt that she will join our progressive friends in the Senate with a newfound passion for equality.

Matisse is a new visual GUI builder that allows developers to save a lot of time laying out their GUIs. This has been a huge problem in the Java industry for many years. This is the big, new, hot feature that the developers are really clamoring for.

That was really a momentum builder and I thought it would change the pace of the game for us. We got within six, but, you've have to hit them when they count, so I should've hit them in the first half.

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Today was a morale builder for us. We've played better and we've played worse. But hopefully, this will be the start of an upswing that can take us through the postseason.

We have a very open architecture for data warehousing and BI, partly because Oracle Warehouse Builder 10 g works so well with third-party databases. Oracle Warehouse Builder performs the heavy lifting with our ETL processes, and it minimizes costs by delivering data to a variety of end-user tools.

We promised all along that this Thunderbird would have a limited production run, and we're being true to our word. Thunderbird was a terrific image builder for the Ford brand showroom at a time when we needed it.

We beat a good team tonight. And to beat them in that fashion is a real confidence builder for us and something we needed badly.

Those games went so fast because we didn't play full matches, and we couldn't get settled in but we're happy with how we came came out. It's a good confidence builder for us; we just need to come in on Saturday morning and take care of business so we can advance to the championship bracket.

We said we couldn't wait to get home, that all those losses we could blame on the road. We're glad we're here. It's a big confidence builder for us.

We kept running our plays and I kept getting open to knock down shots all night. This game goes as a huge confidence builder for us as we go on the road. We just need to keep playing as a team and see what happens from here on out.

We're out to gain a little bit of respect. To beat a team from a good conference like this (the Greater Metro) helps. It's a nice confidence builder for us.

With cost increases, unfortunately a lot of builders will sign a contract with a homeowner and halfway through construction the cost of materials goes up 12 percent. Frequently, the builder has to eat that.

Under the old process, we would have to send the builder numerous brochures that were already obsolete by the time they opened them. Now, the builder can show their customers the latest styles with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

This was a big confidence builder for me.

This new version of Oracle Warehouse Builder will help us scope out the transformation requirements up front, such as how much data cleansing we will have to do and what kinds of transformations will be required. This will allow us to accurately estimate how much work will be involved in pulling new data sources into the data warehouse.

To us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials and the builder to take responsibility,

Every builder should spend 24 hours in a wheelchair in their own home. They would think differently about building homes that would be more friendly to people with disabilities.

Beating a state champion is a huge confidence builder for Peter. We talked after the match, and he said that he played well but not his best. This is something that could really propel his season to the next level.

Engineers want more than a bare processor. So, we offer a tool, SOPC Builder that lets developers choose the peripherals and processors for their design. Then they connect the processor to the memories, the DMA channels to the peripherals and so on.

Ernie is Mr. Smooth, politically correct, and I'm everything but. Ernie is a consensus builder and negotiator. I blow up bridges.

I've wanted to get our team to overachieve all year, even though we've been playing out of position with our backs against the wall, but they did that tonight as they continued to scrap and fight the whole game. Overall, it was a positive team builder for next year.

The second place finish at the Cal Poly Invitational was a confidence builder for the team. What we learned during the fall is that we've got to be mentally tougher. Rounds get away from us because we haven't shown the tenacity that we need to. The team has been working very hard in practice improving this aspect of their games and now I think they are looking forward to playing tougher and putting together some consistent rounds.

Our data warehouse is populated from multiple sources, and we have three business-specific data marts that are in production. We picked Oracle Warehouse Builder for our ETL tool and Oracle as the database for our central data warehouse for both technical and cost reasons. In our evaluation testing, the total ETL throughput rate, using Oracle Warehouse Builder and an Oracle target, exceeded our minimum requirements by a factor of 10.

Some softening of long-term interest rates since early December helped buoy builder attitudes. Consumer confidence has rebounded nicely from post-Katrina lows.

Once you get it going, it kind of snowballs which is nice. It's a great momentum builder for Friday night. We've done what we want to do. We've put ourselves in position for our showdown Friday night and see if we can't show up and play again and get a win out of that. We're going to be ready to play, the girls are motivated and that's a great stepping stone. That's a lot better than a two-point overtime win.

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The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Al Cohen was a builder of high-rise office buildings - buildings of consequence.

This could have been a momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound ... If we could have gotten one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we could have won.

They're (Wake Forest) going to have a terrific year, and obviously this is a great confidence builder for our program. We were facing four straight road games. Dayton , Wake, we're at Old Dominion Saturday, and we have to go to California next week. We really have played a difficult schedule and been in a lot of close games. We've taken everybody's best shot, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. Our kids have toughened up and are starting to learn how to play together.

A lot of guys stepped up and we had guys down. We started scrapping and finding a way to win. I think that was a confidence builder for some of the younger guys.

There is now accumulating evidence that the housing market peaked somewhere in the third quarter. Our survey of builder confidence, which came out yesterday, was down a lot. . . . It was the biggest drop since the first survey after 9/11.

There's a little bit of a treasure hunt aspect to research. A lot of times people start with a little goal, like finding the builder of the house, then get hooked on it. It's fun to be able to tell your kids, to have an understanding of what lives have been lived here. To know the birthday of your house and who the parents of your house were.

They're doing the right things and getting in the right areas. The professional builder market is a $400 billion-plus market. When you're the second-largest retailer, if you want to continue to grow you have to continue to go after really large targets.

It seems like our close game victories are tied to our relief pitching. Anytime you can come from behind and win, it's a morale builder because the more you do it, the more you believe you can.

It was a real big confidence builder for us. There was a lot of emotion in that game. It meant an awful lot to our kids.

It's a confidence builder for this team. It shows we can overcome odds.

It's a real confidence builder for our team, to play the No. 1 team in the country and get a point.

It's a real confidence builder after such a long layoff. I was swinging the club well and hitting the ball great, and I was delighted to be back in contention.

It really is (important). We really needed these game. To take two is a real momentum builder for us. Everybody's taking care of their business.

It's the site - that's the issue. It isn't who the builder is.

That's probably the biggest confidence builder you can have. You want to be efficient in these games, but at the same time, it's not bad to see some adversity and get yourself out of it.

It was a big win. For us it's a confidence builder anytime you can beat them in a shootout.

It was a big win. A program turnaround win. It was a nice builder for next year. We're going to be good.

It was a good experience and a new experience. It allowed the kids to grow and bond as a team. It was a great team builder to just get away. We are thankful for the support of the principal and athletic director. It's their support that let us get to where we are.

It was a confidence builder to go in and run the table on a team like that like we did.

It (the Triad housing market) is getting more competitive than it has been in the past. As a builder we've got to look for new things that will attract the buyer.

They complained to the builder for all that time, but he simply refused to negotiate. They gave advance notice of the problems, asked to sit down negotiate, but in the end, it turned out they had to sue.

It was just a good confidence builder for the girls.

In Central California these days, it seems as if everyone is either a real estate agent, mortgage broker, home builder or construction worker.

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

I'm more of a consensus builder who can find common ground with other senators. I believe that Dan would be isolated and marginalized, which means that all the constituents of District 7 would be isolated and marginalized as well.

If new to the area, ask a lot of questions of the builder such as how much work is subbed out and when payments are due on your contract. Go to their office and see their selections and meet who will be working with you on your pool construction. Simple pools can be done in about eight weeks. Pools with pavers or custom rock features or retaining walls will take longer.

I know of no other machine tool builder in the world that has done this.

I heard a couple of 'Oh, nos' on the bench the way the season has gone. So that was a big momentum builder for us.

(City officials) met with the builder and the architect, and we reviewed the issues that were brought to our attention, ... Both the builder and the architect are very cooperative in looking at these problems and taking care of them. I'm confident that that will happen.

Cale did a great job of getting a head in counts with each batter. He mixed up his pitches. A win like this is a confidence builder for him and us.

Hopefully we're going to use it as a confidence builder more than anything else. We're going to have to play up to the level we're capable of.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

The car was flat out all the way around, and that is all it had. It definitely helps that we tested here last week and the team was able to pick up some additional information. I think we have a good racecar, too. This is a trick track, and the race is always crowded and busy throughout the 200 laps. We haven't had the best luck this year, but the Sonoma race was a confidence builder for the No. 15 Argent Mortgage/Pioneer team.

All the (member) districts voted on it. Basically, we don't want another professional builder to take a business owner's property under eminent domain.

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again

The true ship is the ship builder.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.