Christopher Alexander Quotes

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

Christopher Alexander

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LifeCommunityPracticeCreateAdapt

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Jennifer Egan

TimeIdeasStartPlaceKnowNeed

That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

Jenny Holzer

ArtPeopleTestStreetOthersSee

Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.

Stacie Orrico

SchoolYouTwoUpDaysStarted

The best example is the NBA, with high intensity and long breaks. During the season, the NBA teams play every three days. That's a lot, and they also travel far. But from the end of May until October, they have their break.

Toni Kroos

BestTravelEndLongPlayThree

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

Robin S. Sharma

PerformanceThinkingThoughtBetter

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

Demetri Martin

SchoolLawInterestingThreeFirst

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

Christopher Voss

BrainVoiceImpactYouImportant

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.'

Chris Robinson

PathHappyMeRoadCareerMore

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

Scott Ritter

WarWeaponsPromoteInspector

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

Ridley Scott

PeopleToughDoingFilmIdeaHow

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Herodotus

SuccessMenFruitGainsVenturing

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

George Papandreou

ProblemSolutionWillPossibleTalk

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