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“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

“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

“Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.”

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.”

“The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.”

Trying Hands Parent Example Building Train Setting Settings Pulling Good Examples Setting A Good Example

Book:The Duties of Parents

Source: The Duties of Parents

“More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.”

People Trying Real Building Paper Goods Lasting Assets Shuffle

Author:Akio Morita

“Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.”

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Author:Jackie DeShannon

“I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.”

Thinking Trying Humans Easy Forget Conditions Building Easier Comfort Human Condition Fence Enjoyable Pitfalls

Author:Nick Offerman

“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”

Feels Trying Home Eye Lasts Figures Objects Building Please Comfortable Adults Filling Acquiring Things Building A Home

Author:Lauren Bacall

“I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.”

“We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.”

People Trying Helping Building Weakness

Author:Peter Drucker

“I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"”

Thinking Knows Trying Moments Home Certain Three Next Stuff Four Week Building Studios Shooting Next Day Coming Back Rehearsal

Author:Anthony Heald

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”

Thinking Should Trying Jobs Turns Nations Enemy Military Building Citizens Murder Down And Democratic Iraq Engaged Hunts Isis Utopia American Citizens Jihad Switzerland Nation Building

Author:Ted Cruz

“One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.”

Trying Lying Dies Fall Love Is Alive Sky Building Built Everlasting Lasting Love Everlasting Love

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.”

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Author:Gregg Harper

“When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“Often architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It’s like we’re actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.”

Trying Looks Different Hard Actors Language Audience Stage Building Architect

Author:David Chipperfield

“Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.”

Should Trying Believe Play Opportunity I Believe Roles Building Obligation Architect

Book:Observations for young architects

Source: Observations for young architects

“The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.”

People Thinking Trying Helping Design Building Empathy

Author:David M. Kelley

“Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.”

Trying Character Building More Time Platforms

Author:Christine Caine

“For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.”

Trying Hands Night Doors Building Wind Window Rounds Seeking Tricks Wander Unseen Spooky Moaning Crevice

Book:The Chimes

Source: The Chimes

“There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.”

People Knows Way Trying Fall Realizing Wise Violence Figures Building Walking Victim Communicate Righteous Continuing Unnecessary Cattle Unnecessary Things

Author:RZA

“There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach.”

Trying Two Quality Possibility Changed Building Approach Unique Inspired Average Architect Be Inspired

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“When a grown man is chasing you around a building or running through the hotel and trying to jump in your elevator, oh man, I can't even see it. What excitement can you possibly get from having my autograph besides selling it?”

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Author:Clinton Portis

“I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.”

Thinking Trying Wells Would Be Building Spending Spending Time

Author:Paul Goldberger

“I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.”

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Author:Paul Goldberger

“Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.”

Trying Past Imagination Imagine Building Future Architecture Measurement Past Present Future

Author:Richard Rogers

“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”

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Author:Jonathan Edwards

“We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.”

World Trying Years Two Whole Found Building Years Ago Wake Up Trade Whole World Preserves Destructive Barriers Sanity Threatening Armament

Author:Owen D. Young

“I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.”

Thinking Want Trying Might Danger Building Guitar Driving Kicks Being The Best Tall Jumping No Fear Fear Of Death Have No Fear Bungee Jumping Bungee Tall Buildings

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.”

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Author:Dana Spiotta

“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”

“I hear a lot of young people talking about the need to network. I think that is true, and I think that building a network makes sense. But I also think that there is another way to approach it, and that is to try to make friends. Just try to make a lot of friends.”

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Author:Dana Perino

“Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.”

“I spent 15 years in I-AA football, which is awesome, because you wear every hat in the building at one time. I was everything from a PA announcer to a popcorn salesman to a teacher at a university, as part of the PE department. When you don't have resources, what you do is study as much as you can and try to put it in your own terms. There's no one thing I've invented.”

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Author:Jim McElwain

“Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.”

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Author:Vincent de Paul

“A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.”

Ifs Men Trying Heart Wanted Levels Fire Air Building Glad Good Man Chicago Preacher Pulpit Cannons

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.”

People Trying Years Dream Bigs Age New York Building Months Six Decided Moved California American Dream Six Months Swarms Living The American Dream

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.”

Ifs Trying Challenges Effort Building Calling Skills Essentials Aspect Benign Unsuccessful

Author:Michael Josephson

“They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.”

Ifs World Trying Sex Powerful Building Behavior Hollywood Asking Criminals Most Powerful Killers Machinery Twisted Orientation Dykes Criminal Behavior

Author:Roger Ebert

“I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.”

Want Feels Trying Building Contemporary Architect Transparency

Author:Luis Gonzalez

“I'm so weird with women. I couldn't go up to a gorgeous woman and tell her the building's on fire. 'Don't take this the wrong way, uh. I don't mean to be weird and I'm not trying to be creepy, but the building's on fire.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“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.”

People Trying Culture Common Race Building Bridges Builder Common Ground Building Bridges

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.”

People Way Trying Spirit Building Happenings Appeals Flags Gears Electronic Music

Author:Squarepusher

“I respect everything H3 has already accomplished and respect everything he's trying to get done. We're building a real HOME for the Hip Hop generation complete with all the things we love to do. But it's really about creating educational opportunity and good jobs and that's where Team H3 will prove to be unbeatable.”

Trying Real Done Home Jobs Opportunity Generations Team Building Prove Creating Hip Hop Educational Hips Accomplished Hops Good Job Unbeatable

Author:Juelz Santana

“Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.”

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