Bjarke Ingels Quotes

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

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• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• I don't wear plaid shirts.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Wear
  • Shirts

• My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Father
  • Best
  • Chemistry

• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Feel
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Choices

• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Done
  • California
  • Anywhere

• I'm kind of a recluse.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Kind
  • Recluse

• I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

  

  Adam Driver
  • Job
  • You
  • Military

• Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Children
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Succeeded

• With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Good
  • Football
  • Growth

• As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Picture

• The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Stop
  • Reading

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Words
  • Actor
  • Memorised

• It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Human Nature
  • Enjoyment
  • Resilience

• My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

  

  Peter M. Brant
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Doubt

• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths. Then I need all the comfort that practice has stored in my memory, a tenacity of faith.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Great
  • Small
  • Faith

• Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Understanding
  • Winning
  • Discipline

• Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

  

  Bjarke Ingels