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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. -- Tadao Ando
The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. -- Wendy Kopp
Vaccine conspiracies, like so much modern cult conspiracy culture, perpetuates itself and lives on indefinitely thanks to the community-building and archiving of the Internet. -- Alex Pareene
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos. -- Marina Warner
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes. -- Henry Cloud
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. -- T. D. Jakes
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. -- Frank Gehry
When I went to India, I became absolutely obsessed with the idea of building a hotel in India. I've never done a hotel, and I'd love to do public spaces in that culture. -- Hugh Hardy
You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward. -- Kathryn Minshew
I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent. -- Jon Oringer
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. -- Michael Mandelbaum
I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.' -- Diane Paulus
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times. -- Jaquelin T. Robertson
I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture. -- Walton Goggins
When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details. -- Marie Rutkoski
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive. -- Laini Taylor
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. -- Jim Hightower
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different. -- Moshe Safdie
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place. -- Yanni
Startups need to focus on building a foundation for their company culture early, and then they need to revisit it often. Every time a hire is made, a feature is launched, a Facebook status is updated, a press interview is given, a round of financing is raised, or a meeting is held, culture should be part of the decision-making process. -- Leah Busque
That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism. -- Mairead Corrigan
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. -- Ted Sundquist
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated -- Brad Stevens
Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace. -- Daisaku Ikeda
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building? -- Sara Sheridan
We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages. -- Scott McClellan
I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows. -- Sam Altman

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