"By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs."

-- Amory Lovins

#Design Quotes #Energy Quotes #Cost Quotes

“The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.”
“Lessons are not given, they are taken.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.280, Transaction Publishers
“Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”
“I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
“Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.”
“Wasnâ€™t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”
“The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.”
“Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.”

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