"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Travel Quotes #World Quotes #London Quotes

“If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.”
“I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.”
“It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.”
“To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.”
“Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.”
“I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.”
“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”
“The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.”

Source : "The Edict of Chandigarh" by Le Corbusier, 1959.

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