Tadao Ando Quotes
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.
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You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
