"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this"

-- Michael Graves

#Careers Quotes #Goal Quotes #Design Quotes

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”
“Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.”
“Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.”
“Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.”
“If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.”
“I'm interested in music as an extension of character.”
“I think poetry is best read to oneself.”
“Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.”

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