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| Below is a listing of quotes I have
heard that have made me laugh, think or ponder. Some were so
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& Architecture Business Life Sherlock Holmes Miscellaneous September 11 The Dubya Bush Bash Add your own quote Quote for this
Election Year: Art & Architecture Quotes: back to the top Modern man is turning from the natural,
and is becoming more abstract. We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us. --- Sir Winston Churchill The most important part of a computer rendering is the design, not the rendering. Do the best you can while you are where you are. That's just part of being a professional. Plot out career path. Know what to do and when; what skills you must learn and who you need to meet with to learn those skills. While learning, plan how to stay attached to what you are doing now; you don't want to forget and have to relearn, and you don't want a resume with holes in it. --- Mark Grantham (Architect) Don't do something unless you truly
understand what you are doing. It is never wrong to ask questions Don't work and focus on just one drawing.
Always work on the drawing with the entire set [of drawings] in mind Study the client, and set the curve with the client Set the curve with your piers. If something is not worth doing at all, then its not worth doing well. Good architects aren't cheap, & cheap architects aren't good. Design with strength, build with beauty Old architects never die, they just change their plans. Don't just learn technique, show yourself off. Live to, and try to surpass your potential. Simplicity works best, but a couple of sticks wont get you to the moon. The simplest answer for a complex system, will fail the least amount of times. Why is there always time to go back and fix the mistakes, yet never enough time to do it right the first time? You have a monopoly on fame and a dictator of glory. You have used all the authority of your position to praise only what resembles your own work, and plot against anything that tends to break out of your set mold. I don't need your vision because your eyes are already closed. "Though a living cannot be made at art, art makes life worth living. It makes living, living. It makes starving, living. It makes worry, it makes trouble, it makes a life that would be barren of everything -- living. It brings life to life." --- John Sloan in Gist of Art, 1939 "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --- Albert Einstein Understanding the theme of a building is the first step in understanding the design of the building. -- Steven Holl "Good buildings, like a book, have great & powerful insides. They don't have to have a flashy outside." - Steven Holl Once you show someone a design idea, they might think you are advocating it. Be careful in showing worst case scenarios and with anything you show to the client, as they may wish to proceed in a direction that is not wise. Business back to the top Its not the tools used, its the vision of the person using them. --
Ernest Burden Your job as a leader of a company is to succeed during the good times and the bad times. Anyone can run a company during the good times, it take a great leader to lead during the bad times. --- Mike Dell Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promised. --- Harvey MacKay A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. --- Ken Adelman One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. --- Dennis Peer The person who knows how will always have a job. But the person who knows why will be his boss. --- Carl Wood No person can be a great leader unless they take genuine joy in the successes of those under them. --- W. Nance An organization must have a leader who is optimistic! Partners in a company are those employees who care about clients, projects and the company as if they owned the company. When someone acts as a partner, decisions made should not be any harder to make than if they did own the company. Clients can't distinguish the difference between our services. Their only distinction is on who can get the job done first or cheapest. Workers do their best work when they are in an environment where they feel important, supported and secure. Leaders must spell out a vision for the future and a detailed plan of how the team is going to get there. You have to be willing to take risks and be willing to accept 'failure' when taking risks in order to achieve great results. You must accept that some of your work from those risks will not be the best. By accepting this will you be able to learn from your mistakes and soar. A great manager will allow themselves AND their employees take on the risk and the 'failure'. The bitterness of poor quality lingers, long after the cheap price is forgotten. --- sign on the wall of a glass shop History is a vast early warning system --- Norman Cousins A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war. --- Henry Van Dyke How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it. --- Tribune I'm Lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. --- Lech Walesa Life is for one generation; a good name is forever --- Japanese Proverb The more I know the less I know. People don't plan to fail, They fail to plan. We make a living by what we make, We make a life by what we give. --- Sir Winston Churchill This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." --- Sir Winston Churchill Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy --- Sir Winston Churchill A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and wont change the subject. --- Sir Winston Churchill Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory. --- G. Behn While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. --- G. Grumet Keep the focus, don't be distracted by the highs and lows. --- President Clinton They can attack my reputation but they can't attack my character --- President Clinton What ever people say, let it go. Let them say their mind. I got to do my job, not bicker. --- President Clinton Plan out your life with your family in mind. --- Mark Granthom (Architect) If its uphill all the way, you should be used to it by now. Them not busy being born is busy dying "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --- Martin Luther King Jr. "Unjust laws are justly broken." --- Martin Luther King Jr. Our critics are our friends, for they show us our faults. --- President Clinton Care enough about the next generation, to
sit down and share your thoughts and experiences with others. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant Curiosity is the very basis of education
and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat
died nobly. "Stop quoting me, you blubbering twit!" -- Confucius When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. --- Kikuyu Proverb It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. --- Vincent van Gogh Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much. Talk slowly but think quickly. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck. Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation Try many paths in life, many will lead to dead ends, and you will have to backtrack. But how would you have known it was not for you, unless you explored the path? So, look around at your options and never stop exploring, asking questions, and listening. Do what you do to make you well. All the training in the world wont matter if what you do does not make you happy, and in turn well. More rather than less, sooner rather than later --- President Clinton Take the time to network. You have a monopoly on fame and a dictator of glory. You have used all the authority of your position to praise only what resembles your own work, and plot against anything that tends to break out of your set mold. I don't need your vision because your eyes are already closed. John Sloan in Gist of Art, 1939 "Though a living cannot be made at art, art makes life worth living. It makes living, living. It makes starving, living. It makes worry, it makes trouble, it makes a life that would be barren of everything -- living. It brings life to life." "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning -- and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. --- John J. Welsh There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment. --- Malcolm Hein Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way. --- Red O'Donnell What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? --- Robert Schuller You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. -- J. Hilcomb God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. --- Swedish Proverb If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. --- Milton Berle If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. --- Jonathan Winters If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. --- Geena Davis Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. --- Gen Patton A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. ---John Shedd Success in life is based on good judgment. Good judgment is based on experience. Experience is the result of bad judgment. -- Anthony Robbins If you don't execute your ideas, they die. ---Roger von Oech, author and consultant It's lonely at the top, but you eat better. --- unknown "He who lives by the sword sometimes gets it stuck up his ass." ---George McGeary If your explaining... your loosing. "The road to happiness lies in two simple
principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well,
and when you find it, put your whole soul into it ---every bit of energy
and ambition and natural ability you have." The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts
become your words. Quotes by Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle): back to the top Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. -- The Sign of the Four When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- The Sign of the Four When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- The Blanched Soldier It is of the Highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from the truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. the same justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance my be removed. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suite facts it biases the judgment I never guess. It's a shocking habit, destructive to the logical faculty. It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. The public not unnaturally goes on the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the reach of his drugs. Miscellaneous Quotes: back to the top Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. --- Sir Winston Churchill Indeed I do not think we should be
justified in using any but the more somber tones and colors while our
people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are
passing through a dark and deadly valley. Toyota's are CRAP.
I owned one and it was also a piece of CRAP.
I wouldn't trust any of you to sit the right way on a toilet seat --- Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) He's the type of person people immigrate to get away from. --- Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) Great Discoveries are found by those who don't follow the beaten path. Advertising is a depiction of the American dream rather than reality. It shows how we want to live, not really how we do live. Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. Well done is better than well said. --- Gwen Haymore Fools' names, like fools' faces, Are often seen in public places. War and children, are just a shot away. --- Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Education is the lifeblood of living. "You don't tug on superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off the 'ol lone ranger and you don't mess around with Jim!" The press, the press they accuse me of things I haven't done, yet never focus on the things I have. I believe in censorship, but everyone should be their own censor. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." "Statistics are like a
bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital." "Next time someone asks you if you're a god... you say YES!" --- Ghost Busters "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." --- Jack Handey Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. --- Paul Sweeney
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach
that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. When you hear the flushing sound... its to late to start treading water. --- Patrick Hoesly September 11, 2002 Quotes ( 9/11 ) back to the top "Small wonder
we're losing the propaganda war. The only ones who are afforded the
ability to freely speak their minds without fear of politically-correct
reprisal are the terrorists themselves." "...What this
country needs is more free speech worth listening to." "It's
fairly telling that those who require iron-clad proof of any charge made
by the U.S. are the same ones who unquestioningly accept any claim —
no matter how absurd — made by our enemies." "Freedom was won
by sacrifice. Freedom is maintained by sacrifice. Anyone who
thinks they can be free without sacrifice only ends up sacrificing
everyone's freedom." "They're not
martyrs. They're murderers." "[The
people of the United States] are not a fiery, impulsive people as you
are... But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with
the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche." "If we'd
shown the same moral resolve against terrorism after the 1993 attack on
the WTC, the towers would still be standing today...and 3,000 people
would still be alive. We cannot afford such complacency ever
again." "Not all
terrorists are annoying. Some are dead." "One should
seriously question the motives of those who insist that we 'understand'
terrorists. Why aren't those people preaching to the terrorists that
they should 'understand' us?" "Contrary to the views of the opposition, we are waging a highly spiritual campaign during Ramadan. We're doing all we can to make sure every member of Al Qaeda gets to meet God." Jay D. Dyson "Victory
at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and
hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." Bush Bash: back to the top There ought to be limits to freedom. - talking about websites satirizing Bush ... I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico... I know him... to have gas and oil sent to U.S.... so we'll not depend on foreign oil... - on the first Presidential debate, 10/03/2000 Ok, yeah, me and George, we don't see eye to eye on policy issues. That may be due to the fact that I am intellectually curious and at least willing to explore issues of the day, whereas Dubya just has his advisors tell him what to believe every day. It must be nice to be George, to say whatever you're told and believe it. - Blog "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." -George W. Bush, May 14 "And to the C students... I say... you, too, can be president of the United States." (while delivering the 2001 commencement address at Yale University.) "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." -George W. Bush, declining to take reporters' questions during a photo op with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, April 21, 2001 "You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet. Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"?" -10-28-00 Headline News - Mimi "I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush did 30 years ago is cool to try." -Gov. Bush in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had used "drugs, marijuana, cocaine" "Families is where our
nation finds hope, where wings take "Our priorities is our faith." - Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 "I think if you know what
you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer
your question." "I know the human being and fish can coexist
peacefully." Larry King:
"What do people misunderstand about you most" "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."-- The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000 "The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money." —Westminster, Calif., Sept.13, 2000 "...I don't need to be subliminabable.." Orlando, FL, Sept. 12 -- when caught using subliminal technique in his dirty ads against Gore... (read more)
"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease."--After meeting with the leaders of the European Union, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
"Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother
Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well." -George W. Bush, June 4,
2001
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