"Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people."

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Source : Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.206, Oxford University Press, USA

Christopher Alexander

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.”

Source : Joseph Stiglitz (2015). “The Great Divide”, p.110, Penguin UK
“Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.”
“Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”

Source : Song: Once in a Blue Moon, 2003
“William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.”
“I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.”
“Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.”
“Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.”
“The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a third of the world's population hasn't yet reached the level of economic development where we begin to get a dissociation from people's economic status and their reports about personal happiness. So we really do need to do much more and much more effectively in order to give everyone the kind of basis for which they can have good vibes.”

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