"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

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Source : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.56, Princeton Architectural Press

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
“Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.”
“With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.”
“I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.”
“How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.”
“All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.”
“Aim for service and success will follow!”

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