"Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive."

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Source : Interview with Andrea Tamas, www.archdaily.com. August 2009.

Denise Scott Brown

#People Quotes #Architecture Quotes #Attractive Quotes

“So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.”
“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. â€¦ The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.239, Bantam
“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.”
“Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.”
“A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest”
“I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.”
“The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.”

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