"One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building."

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Source : "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.

Joseph Rykwert

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Quality Quotes

“[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.”
“Beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.”

Source : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
“We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only.”
“Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.”
“In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.”
“Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky?”

Source : "He Said, She Said: Clinton Prepares To Testify". www.cnn.com.
“Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com

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