Quotes on Bad Ass

My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

I call architecture frozen music.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so