事情
So, I went through life constantly practicing this model of disciplinary approach. Well, I can’t tell you what that’s done for me. It’s made life more fun. It’s made me more constructive. It’s made me more helpful to others. It’s made me enormously rich.
And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a single day can change the course of a whole lifetime.
Rebuilding my career at fifty wasn’t easy—but nothing worthwhile ever is.
"The most difficult thing is to make something simple."
The most radical thing you can do is to be yourself.
The simplest things can be the most profound.
I don't want to make things that are difficult for people. I want to make things that are easy.
The most important thing is to have a vision of what you want to do and then to have the persistence to carry it out.
The most exciting thing is when you suddenly see the solution to a problem that has been puzzling you for a long time.
I wanted to create something that would make my community proud, something that would show we can do great things with our own hands.
The most difficult thing is to be simple.
The most radical thing you can do is to be absolutely contextual.
You have to really believe not only in yourself but in what you're doing.
Architecture is not about form, it's about many other things.
The most difficult thing is to be simple.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
The most difficult thing in architecture is to be simple.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.