"Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract."

-- Rafael Vinoly

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes

“Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.”
“CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.”
“There are times I wish I didn't have a job, even though I love my job: I get to work with interesting, eccentric colleagues and equally interesting and eccentric subject matter, both of which are rarities. But, naturally, I would treasure having more freedom someday: of time and of movement. Will I always have a full-time job? I don't know. But I do know that I need to spend at least part of my week in an office, with other people.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.144, Counterpoint Press
“No matter how much you may want to think of HoldÃ©m as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.”
“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
“The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.”

Source : "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.
“Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that”

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