Quotes on Bad Ass

Battle... brings out all that is best.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.