We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
当我们发现保持不变比改变更痛苦时，我们就会改变自己的行为。后果给我们带来痛苦，激励我们去改变。
Life is a continual combat.
Architecture must respond to the human condition with dignity.
我不喜欢做简单的事，我喜欢挑战自己。
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Small-scale fishermen are not relics of the past—they're pioneers of the future.
活着是世界上最罕见的事，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）
"The most rewarding part of filmmaking is seeing your vision come to life on the screen."
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.