“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.” IfsFeelsRealLightSunImagineBuildingProductsLuckySucceedBirdRainDimensions Author:Peter Zumthor
“I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.” ThinkingYearsJobsWorstBuildingDadLuckyOfficeMy DadEmploymentJanitorOffice Buildings Author:Chris Carmack
“Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.” IfsWorldYearsFiveBuildingLuckyBuiltSymbolsFive YearsHallsConcertsImpressive Author:Charles Landry
“Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.” WorldIdeasDifferentEnoughActorsLanguageBornBuildingBecomingLuckyConceptsOccupationDifferent PlacePlaces In The WorldDialectCharacterization Author:Lake Bell
“I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidEnoughWould BeRunningNumbersBuildingTheoryIndustryLuckyYears AgoOriginalsTrackExpectedRadicalFirmSchemesFoundersLapDistinguishedClassificationRadical ChangeIncremental Change Author:Clayton Christensen
“My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through the city and don't notice that you're in a really beautiful neighborhood, or that you're passing a beautiful building. It's nice, as an exercise, to keep aware that you're in a really lucky place.” FeelsBeautifulWalksCitiesNiceNew YorkChangedBuildingExerciseLuckyPassingPassingsNeighborhoodReally Beautiful Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.” KnowsYearsPastLawMotherFatherSpeakWhiteFourBuildingKeysMomDadLuckyPrisonMy DadCaughtMy MomNeighborhoodTransitionPermitFour YearsMom And DadCurfewCaught In The Act Author:Trevor Noah
“The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.” IfsBuildingDevelopmentLuckyCodeIgnoredAffordableMandatesRedundancy Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'” ThinkingKnowsRealForgetBuildingLuckyLuckNever ForgetSiteUnbelievableDiggingLucky YouReal Work Author:Liam Neeson