Architect Quotes - Page 16

• When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.

  John Cusack

  Media, Black, Intellectual

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done. I wish I could say I'm an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I've been lucky that things have come across my path and they've worked out well for me.

  Aisha Tyler

  Wish, Lucky, Done

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was so easy for him to think fourth-dimensionally, dynamically. It wasn't just a static thing with him. In other words, it isn't the way an architect thinks, which is essentially static.

  Paul Laffoley

  Thinking, Tesla, Way

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

  Norman Foster

  Would Be, Impossible, Optimist

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• All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Fate, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.136, Library of America

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• Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Reality, Achievement, Mind

  Orison Swett Marden (1919). “Ambition and Success”

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• In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

  Christopher Alexander

  Acceptance, Students, Lows

  "Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community". Book by Christopher Alexander (Foreword), 1996.

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• Like I say, if [Barack] Obama really, really wanted to use the law to stop acts of militant terrorism, he would get hold of the architects of Sharia, as the American president, and he'd say, "You know, you guys, you're gonna have to moderate this. This is not good. It's not right."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Guy, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.

  Luis Barragan

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  "Contemporary Architects". Book by Muriel Emanuel and Dennis Sharp, 1980.

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• In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.

  Herbert Spencer

  Art, Thinking, Achievement

  Herbert Spencer (1902). “Facts and comments”

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• A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Light, Years

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• I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

  DJ Quik

  Mirrors, Hair, Long

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Past, Mind, Want

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• People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Artist, Thinking

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• I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Want, Furniture, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Trying, Want, Building

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.

  Jean Nouvel

  Memories, Empathy, Vision

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• The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate ourselves from.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trying, Democrat, Mess

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ice, Envy, Design

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Latin, Years, Roots

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• There's no question here that every effort is made to earn as much money off tobacco as possible. At the same time, the same people who are doing everything they can to get every penny out of this product, are condemning its use, are bludgeoning and impugning its users, and denying them every day more and more places where they can legally use the product. In the process, they have been the architects of the black market. The people in charge of all this have themselves set the stage for black market circumstances to prosper and thrive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Effort, Black

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We live in a world of creative beauty - the grand architect of the universe. God has planted something for us - a playground to play in if we choose to look at it that way and understand it. So, this time for me, is really a time to create.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Creative, World, Universe

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

  Murray Bookchin

  Creative, Brain, Ecological

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• Struggle is the architect of the soul.

  James Cook

  Struggle, Soul

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