Thomas Heatherwick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

  • Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

  • We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

  • Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

  • I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

  • Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

  • We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

  • [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  • It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'

  • The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.