"In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble."

-- Rem Koolhaas

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Design Quotes

“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.”
“I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.”

Source : "A Nobel Prize Winner on Why We Need Foundational Research" by Lisa Rosenbaum, www.newyorker.com. October 10, 2013.
“All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”
“Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening”
“If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.”
“All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.”

Source : Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.64
“It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.”

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