Van Der Heide Light Quotes & Sayings

Let me hold
So I can feel
Let me see
So I can learn
Let me be
So I can lead — Andrew King

We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light? — Rogier Van Der Heide

I'm very much a technical person. — Ashley Wagner

Their mutual misanthropy had sealed the deal. — Rob Thomas

Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen. — Hal Moore

Thou must believe that God will turn thy very silence, suspension, deprivation, and laying aside, to His glory, and the advancement of the Gospel's interest. When God will not use thee in one kind, yet He will in another. A soul that desires to serve and honour Him shall never want opportunity to do it; nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel as to think He hath but one way in which He can glorify Himself by thee. He can do it by thy silence as well as by thy preaching; thy laying aside as well as thy continuance in thy work. — Elizabeth Gaskell

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light. — Rogier Van Der Heide

Your passion doesn't have to be utterly precise. Perhaps, for starters, you just feel an urge to work with kids or organize things, or create a website. Start with an instinct, tease it into different directions — Kate White

Now there are some people, not you of course, who would say we should go to the authorities, and this is because they have no grasp at all of the realities of London for the lower classes; no grasp at all of the rookeries and the detritus of decay and squalor that is their lot. Yes? — Terry Pratchett

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives. — Rogier Van Der Heide

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.' — Archie Panjabi

My kids remind me every day how much I don't know. — Jo Dee Messina

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times. — John Updike

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy. — Amy Winehouse

I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to write through a consciousness that allows me to suggest something of this richness. — Marilynne Robinson

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing. — Rogier Van Der Heide

True change happens within not without — Eckhart Tolle