Renzo Piano Quotes

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

Renzo Piano

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• It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Better

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  

  Adam Oates
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Country
  • Continue

• If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • History
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• I give away thousands of paintings for free.

  

  Banksy
  • Free
  • Give
  • Away

• I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• The scope of linguistics should be:

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Black

• 「吾任天下之智力，以道御之，無所不可．」

  

  Cao Cao

• Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Believe
  • America

• It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Work
  • Music
  • Chicago

• In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Independent
  • Commitment

• The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.

  

  Derek Kilmer
  • Home
  • Car

• Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

  

  David Whyte
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Stop

• This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life
  • Work
  • Fear

• I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Choosing

• What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Thinking
  • Painting
  • Dog

• The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Way
  • Miracle

• When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

  

  Renzo Piano
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