Pristupnik Quotes & Sayings

To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. — Greg Lynn

It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now. — Francis Chan

Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got. — William Shatner

When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others. — Robert Greene

You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions. — Mamnoon Hussain

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy. — Tommy Chong

For the most part people do not like to learn. They like to know adn they like to tell others what they know, but they do not like the process of learning ... — Jude Deveraux

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. — Havelock Ellis

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important. — Benjamin Bratt

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. — Paul Rand

I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener, and I want it to be so that kids want to create for themselves a story or a context of the words. — Jack White