Christopher Alexander Quotes

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christopher Alexander

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• Acceptance

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• I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
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• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
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  • Me

• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
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• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
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• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
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• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Losing

• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Choose

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • American
  • Education
  • Best

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
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• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Head
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  • Mouse

• There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Good

• To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Attention

• What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

  

  Tyne Daly
  • Life
  • Work
  • Celebrity

• Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Evil
  • Ambition
  • Fame

• But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications ae full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Future
  • Joy
  • Evil

• In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Life
  • Single
  • Acceptance