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"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
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"Walk the talk and project confidence. If at first you don't feel confident, fake it until you make it."

"You can develop a positive self image with positive thoughts."

"It is enough if God approves of me and all are against me."

"Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction."

"Introduce Yourself. Being confident and outgoing will empower you to approach new people who might be reluctant to take the first step. It is amazing how many people we come in contact with yet pass like ships in the night without any engagement or connection."

"Confidence is the ultimate beauty."

"The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable."

"Do not say you do not have education or abilities."

"High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!"

"Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!"
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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."

"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."

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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