"The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. Thereâ€™s no greater satisfaction."

-- Moshe Safdie

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes

“I suspect it is for oneâ€™s self-interest that one looks at oneâ€™s surroundings and oneâ€™s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.”

Source : Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”
“DNA doesn't make a family. Love does.”
“Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.”
“I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.”
“Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.”
“I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As we transcend our past in the things we do, we also become who we can be. Thus creativity is those attitudes by which we fulfil ourselves.”
“Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.”

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