"Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget."

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Source : "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, edition.cnn.com. June 06, 2008.

Jaime Lerner

#Zero Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.”

Source : Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.232, Springer
“For too long, weâ€™ve called unbelievers to â€œinvite Jesus into your life.â€ Jesus doesnâ€™t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isnâ€™t boring or purposeless or static. Itâ€™s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.”
“Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that.”
“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness”
“Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses...”
“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.368, Hachette UK
“I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.”
“I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.”

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