"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."

-- Kenzo Tange

#Long Quotes #Design Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.”
“I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.”
“It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to.”
“Good content is the stuff of love affairs.”
“Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.”
“Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas, should be easier to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have stronger, more sustained negative reactions because they have fewer alternative pathways to realize their plans. Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts.”
“Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.”
“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.”

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