"You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits,"

-- Steven Holl

#Trying Quotes #Limits Quotes #World Quotes

“I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'”
“History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2007). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“You learn from your mistakes.”
“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”

Source : Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?”
“I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.”
“It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.”
“That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.”

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