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Helmut Jahn Quotes

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Helmut Jahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: german
Birth: January 4, 1940

Topics

Architecture Building Result Goal

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

John C. Maxwell

Live Money Control Society Diet

A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.

John Darnielle

Fire Wind Listening Song Think You

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

Method Man

Myself Hip-Hop Audience Still Gotta

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

Work Fear Car Best Past You

A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be.

Michelle Paver

Writing Want Way Things Making Them

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

Denis Villeneuve

You Choose Feeling Strange Always

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Debi Thomas

Mother Me Thought Ice Skating Just

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

Christian Marclay

You Way Out Used Get Sounds

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Christina Aguilera

Nature Creativity Exploring Always

When you find your passion, it's great. You go up a mountain with partners, and you have a wonderful opportunity to connect and achieve a goal together. You are not trying to be better than other humans. You are supporting each other.

Conrad Anker

Passion Opportunity Great Together

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Colin Hanks

Life School People High School You

Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.

Richard Cohen

Fear War People World Country