Daniel Burnham Quotes

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Daniel Burnham

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• Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Music
  • Control

• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

  

  Randall Park
  • Audience
  • Kid
  • Against

• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Cool

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • How
  • Chickens

• I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Afraid

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Know
  • Single

• Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Horrible
  • Awake
  • Bathroom

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

  

  George Eliot
  • Music
  • Beauty
  • Tenderness

• Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Stress

• Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Wrong
  • Scepticism
  • Fortifies

• One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Music
  • School
  • Running

• Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Beauty
  • Order
  • Beacon