Quotes on Bad Ass

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.