Richard Meier Quotes

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.

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• It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Work
  • Alive

• When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • High
  • Want
  • Always

• Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Running
  • Workout

• I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Attention

• People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • New York
  • Calm
  • One Day

• No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Express
  • Morbid

• I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Different
  • Feeling

• Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Nature

• IF you want to see my monument, look around you!

  

  Christopher Wren
  • Monument

• You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

  

  Charles James
  • Important
  • Contribution
  • Magazines

• Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Moving
  • Speed
  • Efficiency

• Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

  

  Socrates
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Affection

• There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and they can show their "tracks" anywhere and anytime. It may not even be a track; they can cover their activity so that it looks like hackers operating from other territories, from other countries. It is hard to check this activity, maybe not even possible. Anyway, we do not do that at the national level.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Today
  • Track

• Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Characteristics
  • Lists

• I couldn't have drawn it up any better.

  

  Braylon Edwards
  • Drawn

• What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Projects

• We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.

  

  Richard Meier
  • Concern
  • Projects