Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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• On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Will
  • Rights

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Liar

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
  • Think
  • Ancestors

• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Love
  • Today
  • Black

• I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • She
  • Mother
  • New York

• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Science
  • Reading

• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Money
  • Space
  • Ideas

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Up
  • Good
  • Environment

• You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Work
  • Water
  • Transportation

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Labor
  • Intuitive
  • Courting

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Commitment

• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Talk
  • Ifs

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Future

• I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • West
  • South

• After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Time
  • Work
  • Alone

• I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Thoughts
  • Controlled