Architect Quotes
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.
Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
