Explore more quotes by Daniel Libeskind

"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."

Project,

"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."

Faith, Mountains

"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings."

Design, Awareness, Museums

"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us."

Architecture,

"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."

Living, Sleep

"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."

Cities, Humanity

"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."

Design, Needs

"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans."

Development, Americans

"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."

Tragedy, World

"There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private."

Competition, Trees, Will

Exlpore more Responsibility quotes

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Responsibility, Power, Lies

"Whatever happens, take responsibility."

Tony Robbins, American Author

Responsibility,

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Responsibility, Today, Tomorrow

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Responsibility, Greatness

"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Responsibility, Applause, Laws, Senate

"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."

Barack Obama, American President

Responsibility, Power, Act, States

"When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill."

Barack Obama, American President

Responsibility, Help, Party

"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"

Joy Adamson, Czechoslovakian Explorer

Responsibility,

"My difficulties belong to me!"

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

Responsibility, Difficulties

"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Responsibility, Wrong