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giving childhood intuition
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. Carlos Ghosn
giving-up doctrine unions
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best. Carlos Fuentes
giving crow warning
Crows are not always available to give warning. Carlos Castaneda
giving magic world
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.
giving sculpture
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it. Carl Andre
giving forests week
and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end. C. S. Lewis
giving comfort needs
Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
giving-up mind progress
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. Agnes Martin
giving elude foundation
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship. Agnes Repplier
trying pressure
I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself. Carl Crawford
trying walking
When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants. Lee Daniels
trying recipes want
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. Aaron Sorkin
trying
We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were. Andre Walker
trying word
We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded. Brian Schmidt
trying friendly matter
Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.' Alan Titchmarsh
trying ears violence
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. Charlotte Bronte
trying empty blank
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
trying quality honest
The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life. Charlie Haden
architecture feed ideas learned minds music notions
We want our music and ideas to be in the forefront, and what we learned permeated our thinking. Notions of film and architecture feed what we see in our minds as we make music.
architecture job putting skill works
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is. Joshua Bell
architecture art comparable lands
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. Theodor Mommsen
architecture asking changing repetitive result
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. Thom Mayne
architecture art highly
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
architecture ask conditions interested offering plus power seen situations
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?'
architecture job life
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
architecture involved
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
architecture asking good understand
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.