Alvar Aalto Quotes

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

Alvar Aalto

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: finnish
  • Birth: February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976

Topics

NatureBestWorldResultConnection

When I was growing up, all these superheroes were white. On some level, you put that out of your mind... but as you get older, you realize it's a very one-sided affair. So I'm very glad to see that these movies are becoming more diversified.

Joe Morton

MindGrowing UpYouWhiteGrowing

If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern world, trying to ground the movie tonally into something that was a step toward real-world, at least to the degree you can do that in a superhero movie, that's still the tonal universe that we're playing in 'Civil War.'

Joe Russo

WinterCharacterWarStepWorldYou

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

John Calvin

GodGreatRiseWillHimMighty

I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.

Jerry Reinsdorf

VisionTeamBasketballBallSystem

I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.

Joel Edgerton

GoProjectSomethingGoingBecause

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Andy Summers

PastForwardHardAvoidGoes

My whole life, I've been working really hard, and I can say I'm a grand slam champion.

Angelique Kerber

LifeChampionI CanSayHardBeen

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

John Terry

ThinkGoalGoSayGo For ItWill

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

Mike Pence

FamilyGoodHomeMomNameBuild

We focus on a unique form of artificial intelligence called artificial swarm intelligence.

Louis B. Rosenberg

FocusIntelligenceUniqueArtificial

I think my putting could be better, my short game.

Deron Williams

GameThinkBetterShortI Think

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

Douglas Coupland

LoveWhyOutThingsWorkingMade

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