Best 147 quotes in «architect quotes» category

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

For a thing’s beauty we ought to compliment not its owner but its maker.

Everything has been planned. The ascent will be completed in two days’ time. He will climb another one hundred floors today. Another hundred the next day. He does not want to take the lift. The rush of life causes people to drown in the temporary. He wishes to dip into eternity before he leaves.

The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations.

I am the instigator of my adversities but at the same time I am the architect of my success.

On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skyscrapers and bridges that surround them.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

If you must then hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third. Then train those hired for directed passion, dropping the excess baggage and the whole process of unlearning. An entrepreneur is much like an architect shapping human resources into a well crafted power house.

I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.

Solutioning is the art of understanding the current problem faced by the customer and giving them a product that will create bigger problems for them so that they ignore the previous one- the Tiger balm technology. Once you apply it, it starts burning and then you forget the headache that you had

The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

The stability of the structure is directly related to the security of the foundation

You are the architect of your future; you decide whether you will build a hut or a palace.

The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.

With an architect as your guide, you can responsibly stop worrying about what spaces someone else might want in a house and focus only on those things your house should include.

You are the architect of your future; you decide whether you build a hut or a palace.

You say that you trust no one, but I don't believe you. You trust constantly - even when you don't realize it. At the intersection, you trust that the other drivers will stop when their traffic lights are red; you trust the architects and builders when you walk into a building, the engineers when hopping onto a roller coaster, the cook when you're eating the meal prepared for you. To some extent you trust countless strangers on a daily basis. Just as you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world with a full trust in all people, you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world without any trust for any people.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

All clients think that they are architects.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

Architects are the new comedians.

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Character is the architect of the being.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy