"It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished."

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Source : William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press

William H. Whyte

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #Design Quotes

“The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.”
“I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.”
“Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.”
“But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.”
“We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.”
“That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions,”

Source : "'Dance Crew' winners land weekly Vegas show". www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 7, 2010.
“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”
“Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.”

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