Morpurgo Architects Quotes & Sayings

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives. — James Mirrlees

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent. — C. K. Williams

Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place. — Peter Singer

Knowledge does not result from receipt of information transmitted by someone else without the learner undergoing an internal process of sense making. Piaget also called for interdisciplinary learning — Sylvia Libow Martinez

The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often. — Sarah Dessen

Jan Gies won't need to. He'll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep — Anne Frank

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines. — Warren G. Harding

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors ... — John B. Anderson

The secret to happiness is complaining very little. — Nikki Rowe