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Minoru Yamasaki

"But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like."

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"But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like."

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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

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"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

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"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

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"What is easy is seldom excellent."

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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

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"Become great by converting your time into quality product."

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Minoru Yamasaki
"If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture."

Architecture

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Minoru Yamasaki
"In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building."

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Minoru Yamasaki
"And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture."

Change

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Minoru Yamasaki
"I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future."

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Minoru Yamasaki
"In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building."

Building

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Minoru Yamasaki
"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."

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Minoru Yamasaki
"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."

Building

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Minoru Yamasaki
"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."

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Minoru Yamasaki
"I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings."

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Minoru Yamasaki
"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent."

Architecture

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