Lester Beall famous quotes

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  • Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

  • Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

  • Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

  • Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

  • It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

  • Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...

  • Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

  • I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

  • Political development should start at the grassroots.

  • The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

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