Bela H. Banathy Quotes

Participation is empowering and design is empowered by it.

Bela H. Banathy

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• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Believe
  • News
  • Journalism

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Faith
  • Ignorance
  • Facts

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • You
  • Independent

• When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Money
  • Food
  • Struggle

• In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • May
  • Free
  • Space

• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Lost

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Three

• From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Just
  • Number
  • Parts

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• All action is vicarious faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Faith
  • Action

• Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Energy

• As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Life
  • World
  • Understanding

• That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Time
  • Music
  • Beginning

• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

  

  Ben Nelson
  • May
  • American
  • America

• I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.

  

  Mary Beth Whitehead
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Weird

• You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.

  

  John Patrick Shanley
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Heart
  • Mean

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Black
  • Small
  • Sun

• Participation is empowering and design is empowered by it.

  

  Bela H. Banathy
  • Participation
  • Design
  • Empowered