Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

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• When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Optimistic

• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Thought

• For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Words
  • Me
  • Songwriting

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• The pace of television is very different from film.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Film
  • Television

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Music
  • You
  • Timeless

• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Think
  • Nice

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Old

• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Water
  • Rose

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

  

  Buddy Guy

• The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Internet
  • Ignore

• Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature