Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.Alvaro Siza Vieira
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
Abigail Disney -
I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
Kanye West -
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver -
I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
Ted Sarandos -
I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
Natasha Little
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
Hans Berger -
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Karl Kraus -
People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
Iman -
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
Vera Wang -
Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
Nathan Myhrvold -
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
Natalie Coughlin -
Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.
Barack Obama -
Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.
Dale Carnegie -
There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
Lee Smolin -
The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
Apollonius of Tyana -
If you have less games, less back-to-backs, the product's better. The fans will appreciate it more. You see those college guys playing so hard, but they play 36 games in the same amount of time we play 82 almost.
Blake Griffin
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
Donald Knuth -
John McCain was one of the senators who voted against George Herbert Walker Bush's disastrous break of his no new taxes pledge when he raised taxes in 1990. That's really important. He's a supply-sider. And he's got supply siders like Phil Graham and Jack Kemp to vouch for that.
Kellyanne Conway -
the urgent crowds out the essential.
Nan Fairbrother -
My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.
Leon Uris -
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake -
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.
Alvaro Siza Vieira