"Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there."

-- Christopher Alexander

#Vision Quotes #Instinct Quotes #Arise Quotes

“Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.”
“I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.”
“I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.”
“Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.”

Source : Newsweek 28 Jan. 1963
“When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.”
“All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.”
“Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.”

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