Peter Zumthor Quotes

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

Peter Zumthor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: April 26, 1943

Topics

HeartBeautifulFireResearchDeep

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Jenifer Lewis

WorkThinkSelfNot KnowingYouGo

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

CharacterFeelingsMoralWantAnswer

I just go where the guitar takes me.

Angus Young

MeGuitarGoWhereJustTakes

Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses.

John Rocha

GoodBusinessFashionYouTable

My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous.

Sonny Bill Williams

ManJealousOld ManOthersNever

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.

Tom Chatfield

CarProgressPeopleWorldDriving

I grew up in Altadena, California.

Martine Syms

CaliforniaUpGrew

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

Michael Kors

WomenToughColorStrongYouKind

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

Luke Treadaway

WorkFriendsLovelyAbleMatesLot

Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.

Lobsang Tenzin

TruthThoughtsThoughtRealityImage

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!

Joyce Meyer

LifeGodGreatFocusYourselfDoing

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Deborah Tannen

UniqueKnowOthersSeeIndividuals

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