Quotes of: Morris Keyword

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Tuesdays with Morrie

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

S. Jay Olshansky

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

Peter Eisenman

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Peter Zumthor

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Ralph Adams Cram

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Ralph Adams Cram

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

Steven Holl

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

S. Jay Olshansky

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

Toyo Ito

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Tibor Kalman

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Thom Mayne

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Talcott Parsons

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Louis Kahn

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Louis Sullivan

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

Michael Arad

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Michael Arad

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

Martha Beck

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Martha Beck

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

Martha Beck

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Martha Beck