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.

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• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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• I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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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.

  

  Lao Tzu
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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.

  

  Gary McCord
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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.

  

  Eden Hazard
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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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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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.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Imran Amed
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• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Tennis
  • Gym
  • Dancing

• 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.

  

  Xenophon
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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.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
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• You work for whatever you get in life.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Work
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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.

  

  Carl Crawford
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• What I love best in life is new starts.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
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• 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
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• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.

  

  John Carmack

• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
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• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Good
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• Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
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• I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Design

• I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Design
  • Badass