"What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'"

-- Janine Benyus

#What If Quotes #Solve Quotes

“Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.”
“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.”

Source : "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.
“I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.”
“Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.”
“Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.”
“it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
“There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live,”
“If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.”

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