“...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.” ChildrenBookValuesSecretIdentityTaughtLessonsOrdinaryRateCrowdsTreasureRadicalComicHeroicComic BookConcealedOrdinary LifeTreasuredSecret Identity Author:Salman Rushdie
“No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.” MenFirstsHumansSoulValuesFoundTeachDivineHe ManLessonsWasteTerrorMortalsToysHuman SoulColossalShortness Book:The Stones of Venice: The fall Source: The Stones of Venice: The fall
“The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers of 'hows' balanced with 'its' that dissolve in the crashing changes ahead. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character mind-set, values, principles, and courage.” MindCharacterTodayValuesLeadershipQualityLeaderPrinciplesLessonsFocusedBalancedMillenniumMind Set Author:Frances Hesselbein
“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.” TwoValuesThreeForceCitiesBalanceDisciplineLessonsStrategyChaosArchitectureBlockDistinctionAnarchyFormalIrrelevantFluidManhattanBuilderGridsMetropolis Author:Rem Koolhaas