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"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
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"A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes."
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Personal Development
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
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Personal Development
"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
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"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
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"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."
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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
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"If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued."
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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
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"If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential."
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"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
Architecture
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
Reputation
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
Influence
"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
Building
"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."
Weather
"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."
Now
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
Certainty
"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."
Beauty
"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
Age
"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
Architecture
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