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"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
"I am older than your age and younger than your body."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
Reputation
"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
"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."
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"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
"The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox."
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"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
Work
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
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