Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Minoru Yamasaki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 1, 1912 - February 6, 1986

Topics

WordsBuildingLookMustPieceEach

As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.

John Battelle

WordsBorderFoundationNewKind

I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

Meghan McCain

LifeLiveFeelDieMeaningYou

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

LifeHappyWhySoldierBeenTheater

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Rodney Atkins

BetterYouFindUnderstandMoreOff

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

Brian Fallon

GreatPlaceSometimesWantAlways

I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

Brenda Lee

TalentSingJustAbleAgendaWanted

There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

Boris Johnson

RestLondonNeedSolarStartingOwn

I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.

Brittany Howard

MusicTimePeopleKitchenDark

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

ManAnimalActingNeverHeHimself

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

TechnologyWorldTideEarthNothing

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Philip Hammond

ProcessTalkingCountryTaliban

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

Thomas G. Stemberg

BehaviorCustomerYouPlaceForget

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