"It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens."

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Source : "Box clever". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2007.

David Chipperfield

#Creative Quotes #Important Quotes #Workplace Quotes

“Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.”
“Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.”
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

Source : Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.24, Velvet Element Books
“There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects.”
“In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”
“For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,”
“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”
“No, you just keep crashing my life. Lookâ€”" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.”

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