"The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

David Adjaye

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes

“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”
“God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 12, 2014
“I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.”
“Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.”

Source : Charles M. Blow (2014). “Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.”
“I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when youâ€™re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and thereâ€™s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
“Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.”
“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”

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