"I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov."

-- Lou Gerstner

#Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.”
“Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.”
“Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.”
“As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.”
“You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you go along. Once these rules are set, you must never, under any circumstances, break any of them. Dare to break a rule, and you will never live it down. Trust me.”
“Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.”
“Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it's okay.”

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