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“And exciting buildings are fine periodically.”

“Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.”

Ifs Way Artist Building Contributing

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.”

Knows Should Important Artist Quality Building Instance Consistent Gothic Cathedrals

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.”

Ifs Men Looks Artist Building One Man Another Man Facade

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.”

Looks Pieces Building Particular

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.”

Doe Artist Building Truck Eclectic Eclectic Style

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.”

World Artist Building Ears Contemporary Around The World Not Interested

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”

Trying Artist Building Architecture Painter Consistent Sculptors

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.”

Giving Humans Children Art Life Is Lying Names Building Our Children Beach Your Children Aesthetic Sophisticated Being Human Humanistic Sandcastles

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.”

Looks Done Running Building Tables Strategy Property Killing Bridges Meat Remove Crew Deficit No Money Building Bridges

Author:Thomas Frank

“The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.”

Fire Air Building Wall Smoke Liberation Keep Going Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.”

“If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.”

Ifs Believe Belief Building Foundation Stable Stable Life

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.”

Air Building Sigh Castles Castles In The Air Building Castles In The Air

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Two Know How New York Building Block

Author:Al Franken

“Most people don't understand that at a thought has a frequency - every thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought, so if you're thinking about a thought over and over and over again, or if you're imagining in your mind, having that brand new car, having that money that you need, building that company, finding your soul mate, if you imagine what that looks like your're emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.”

“When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.”

Said Nations President Realizing Comedy Building Campaigns Nation Building

Author:Al Franken

“I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.”

Thinking Has Beens Hard Reality Courses Sides Space Answers Consciousness Objects Building Scientist Physics Considering Time And Space Divorced

Author:Robert Lanza

“Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.”

People Want Shows Process Identity Building Creating Bricks Rebuilding

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.”

Care Building Gossip I Care Great Business

Author:Tamara Mellon

“An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.”

Soul Shows Building Smell Old Buildings Redos

Author:Cameron Mackintosh

“Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.”

Two Building Monsters Abandoned Octopus Abandoned Buildings

Author:China Mieville

“In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.”

World Heart Whole Fiction Fields Building Grew My Heart Grew Up Whole World Fantastic Dragons Dungeons Dungeons And Dragons Building Things Close To My Heart

Author:China Mieville

“I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Eye Nations Understanding Clear Building Be You Nation Building

Author:Anthony Zinni

“The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.”

Building Canada Unfortunate Unfortunate Things

Author:Ernst Zundel

“When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.”

Trying Form Quality Design Building Depth Site Sensuous

Book:Architektur denken

Source: Architektur denken

“What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.”

Trying Art Form Building Shapes Construction

Author:Peter Zumthor

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.”

Ifs Feels Real Light Sun Imagine Building Products Lucky Succeed Bird Rain Dimensions

Author:Peter Zumthor

“You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.”

Way Feels Body Certain House Energy Effects Building Cold Skins Hot Glasses Woods Your Body Stealing Heat Concrete Timber Veneer Limestone

Author:Peter Zumthor

“Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read.”

Book Soul Use Position Building Defense Block My Soul Building Blocks

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.”

People Play Community Pleasure Building Reader Transactions

Author:John Hodgman

“I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe the Sharia should be implemented in Denmark. Maybe we should change the Christiansborg Palace [the Danish Parliament building] to Muslimsborg to have the flag of Islam flying over the parliament in Denmark. I think this would be very nice.”

Thinking Should Believe Hands Would Be I Believe Nice Cutting Building Islam Flying Flags Thieves Parliament Palaces Very Nice Denmark Danish Sharia

Author:Anjem Choudary

“Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.”

People Helping Building Safe Climate Climate Change Investing Resilience Saving Money Guarding

Author:Michael Franti

“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”

Thinking World Should Self Helping School Self Esteem Students Building Activity Lows Independent Self Confidence Esteem Obedience Low Self Esteem School Buildings

Author:Alison Lurie

“The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday”

Humans Might Hours Clear Minutes Design Building Species Extremes Lazy Devices Ingenuity Aversion Human Species Industrious

Book:Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

“We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.”

Men Ideas Character Building Assimilation

Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

“Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.”

Hands Building Missions Hand In Hand Building A Business

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.”

Feels Passion Building Fellows Entrepreneur Guilty Chasing

Author:Cameron Herold

“You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.”

Dream Building Planning Your Dreams

Author:Jeff Olson

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

Men War Friendship Cities Enemy Knowledge Learning Building Wall Lessons Ships Foe

Author:Aristophanes

“A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.”

Stills Practice Building Percent Repetition Contests Percentages Building Up Mental Strength Vaults Confidence Building

Author:Bela Karolyi

“The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.”

People Knows World Kind Country Building Internet Empathy Curious Allowing Recognizing Places In The World Bloggers

Author:Jimmy Wales

“The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.”

House Rocks Building Built Sand Bricks Blanket Building Houses

Author:Nicole McKay

“My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.”

America Term Community Effort Violence Crime Building Partnership Earnest

Author:Janet Reno

“It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.”

Body Would Be Loses Building Shame Ignorant Liberation Mud Jewels Precious Jewels Body Building

Author:K. Pattabhi Jois

“A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.”

Real Turns Building Details Architecture Statements Architect Storyteller Landmarks

Author:Curtis W. Fentress

“Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be”

Should Building Notion Architecture Architect Preconceived Notions

Author:Curtis W. Fentress

“I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.”

Wells Said Real Enough Helping Sky New York Building Needed Mountain Mouths No Friends

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.”

Moments Bigs Young Talent Building Happenings Boxing Buzz Building Up Young Talent

Author:Billy Joe Saunders

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