To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Quotes to Delight and Inspire
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Common sense is not so common.
I'm always going to love my father.
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.
Never mistake motion for action.
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.