Michael Hansmeyer Quotes

There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

Michael Hansmeyer

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Technology
  • Kind

• If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Women
  • Respect

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Money
  • Society
  • Almost

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• You work for whatever you get in life.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I don't know how to play evil.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Know
  • Play
  • Evil

• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Universe

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Different

• I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • People
  • Bored

• For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

  

  James Rouse
  • Real
  • Purpose
  • Design

• We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Deep

• The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Design
  • Unique
  • Recognize

• There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

  

  Michael Hansmeyer
  • Design
  • Inspiration
  • Process