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"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
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"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."
"The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on."
"To become a better you, don't dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements."
"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
"A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits."
"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."
"When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained."
"You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on."
"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."
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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
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