"I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning."

-- Louis Kahn

#Past Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Done Quotes

“Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.”
“It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.”
“Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”
“The crazy thing is, I sent out 200 letters and I got one job interview, and I actually got that job, which was working as a development assistant at Joel Silver's company. I always say that to people when they ask "What do I do?" and I'm like, "Look, I didn't get ten responses, and I didn't get five interviews, but I got one interview, and I got the job," and that was all I needed.”
“Poetry is a break for freedom.”
“Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.”

Source : Speech to American Bar Association, Atlanta, Ga., 22 Oct. 1964
“Acting is a mysterious process.”
“I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.”

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