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John Portman Quotes

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: December 4, 1924 - December 29, 2017

Topics

Architecture Past People Building

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

Jessie J

Me Growing Up Feel Go Growing Up

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore

Me Know Grandmother Cook Who Read

Sometimes when you date people, you end up breaking up, and if teammates are mature enough to deal with that, then it's okay. I never want to bring any undue drama to the team.

Megan Rapinoe

People Team End Enough You Drama

I don't have much patience with sick people.

Maura Tierney

Patience People Sick Much

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

Michael Horse

Myself Thought Artist Acting Always

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

John Raese

Change America Conservative Seen

I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.

Louis Theroux

Father Writing Saw Valued He Much

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Jayson Blair

Know Race Hire Hiring Define Role

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

William Henry Ashley

Day Men Sometimes More Same Days

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

William Hazlitt

Education Fool Escape May Who Made

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

Percy Heath

Day Go Europe Tour Second He

I think center is a critical position.

Nick Saban

Think Position Center Critical