"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."

-- Helmut Jahn

#Attitude Quotes #Execution Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.”
“It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained scarred, distorted, 'ugly' or inferior the person himself acted out this role in his behaviour regardless of the changes in physical appearance. If this 'face of personality' could be reconstructed, if old emotional scars could be removed, then the person himself changed, even without facial plastic surgery.”
“Little by little we discover that we don't need to eat animal products at all, because there are so many healthier alternatives that taste great. The trick is going easy with yourself so that you can find your way comfortably. Then you'll stick with it.”

Source : "Kathy Freston: On How to Become a Veganista". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.
“Normally for work I will fly business class.”
“The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.”
“I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.”
“I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.”

Source : 1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.
“I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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