Tadao Ando Quotes
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
Quotes to Explore
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.
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Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
