c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
— Arne Jacobsen
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
— Minoru Yamasaki
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
— Minoru Yamasaki
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
— Charles Jencks
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
— Charles Jencks
I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
— Narciso Rodriguez
Architecture is invention.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
— Oscar Niemeyer
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.
— Paul Keating
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
— Joe Elliott
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
— Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
— Alvar Aalto
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
— Alvar Aalto
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
— Jay Chiat
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
— Peter Eisenman
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
— Peter Eisenman
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
— Peter Eisenman
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
— Ben Nicholson
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
— Ben Nicholson
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
— Ben Nicholson
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
— David Chipperfield
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
— David Chipperfield
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
— David Chipperfield
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
— David Chipperfield
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.
— Michael Arad
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
— Moshe Safdie
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
— Moshe Safdie
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
— Moshe Safdie
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
— Moshe Safdie
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
— Alan Huffman
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
— I. M. Pei
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
— I. M. Pei
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
— I. M. Pei
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
— I. M. Pei
I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.
— Lee Radziwill
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
— Annabelle Selldorf
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
— Oksana Baiul
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.
— Jay Griffiths
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.
— Annabelle Selldorf
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
— Annabelle Selldorf
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
— Annabelle Selldorf
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
— Stefan Sagmeister
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
— Robert Palmer
I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.
— Joseph Kosinski
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
— Joseph Kosinski
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
— Patricia Marx
Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.
— Amanda Hearst
Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
— Abigail Johnson
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
— Malcolm Wallop
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
— Jim Woodring
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
— Janet Echelman
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
— Janet Echelman
In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.
— Alex Ebert
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
— Jake Barton
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
— Leon Krier
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
— Leon Krier
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.
— Leon Krier
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
— Leon Krier
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
— Bjarke Ingels
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
— Bjarke Ingels
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
— Adolf Loos
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
— Art Garfunkel
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.
— Paul Bettany
What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.
— Tony Hale
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
— Frances Mayes
Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
— Nate Lowman
I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.
— Dexter Fletcher
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
— Magnus Larsson
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
— Mario Botta
The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.
— Mario Botta
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.
— Mario Botta
Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
— Mario Botta
I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
— Luke Macfarlane
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
— Juan Goytisolo
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
— Edith Pearlman
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
— Stephen Sprouse
I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.
— James Maslow
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
— Cesar Pelli
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
— Cesar Pelli
Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful?
— Cesar Pelli
To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.
— Greg Lynn
I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.
— Jonathan Hickman
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
— Marco Brambilla
Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
— Donald Bren
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
— Stanley B. Prusiner
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
— James Henry Breasted
I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
— Hayden Christensen
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.
— Max Walker
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
— Max Walker
I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
— Hannah Ware
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
— Harry Seidler
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
— Harry Seidler
Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
— Antoine Predock
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.
— Ron Eglash
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
— Harry Seidler
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
— Walter Russell Mead
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
— George Hickenlooper
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
— Antoine Predock
I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.
— Antoine Predock
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.
— Ron Eglash
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.
— Ron Eglash
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
— Russell Lynes
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
— Steven Holl
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
— John Howe
The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
— Cameron Sinclair
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
— Thomas Heatherwick
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
— Andrew Pyper
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
— Ernest Dimnet
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
— Bernard Tschumi
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
— Bernard Tschumi
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
— John Baldacci
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.
— Anne Fortier
To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
— Leon Max
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
— Michael Ende
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
— Frei Otto
When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.
— Hugh Hardy
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.
— Hugh Hardy
I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.
— Doug TenNapel
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
— Danny Rimer
We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.
— Rob Pike
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
— Martin Puryear
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.
— Hussein Chalayan
The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
— Brian Baumgartner
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
— Rafael Vinoly
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
— Kenneth Clark
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
— Sammy Cahn
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.
— Ross Lovegrove
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
— James Rouse
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.
— Nico Tortorella
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.
— Christian de Portzamparc
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.
— Christian de Portzamparc
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
— Christian de Portzamparc
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
— Saul Steinberg
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
— Bernard Levin
I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.
— James Polshek
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
— James Polshek
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
— James Polshek
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
— James Polshek
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
— Ben van Berkel
Architecture is politics.
— Mitchell Kapor
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
— John Portman
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
— Nancy Banks Smith
Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.
— Michael Lomenda
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
— Emilio Ambasz
There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
— Nathaniel Kahn
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
— Nathaniel Kahn
Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
— John Lautner
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
— Edwin Lutyens
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.
— Edwin Lutyens
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
— Gustav Stickley
I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.
— Alexandre de Betak
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
— James Wyatt
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
— Alexander Jackson Davis
I am but an architectural composer.
— Alexander Jackson Davis
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
— Enid Nemy
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.
— Jude Deveraux
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
— Neil Denari
I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.
— Dante Ferretti
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.
— Michael Hansmeyer
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
— Stephen Covey
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
— Denis Waitley
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
— B. R. Ambedkar
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
— Malcolm Forbes
I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.
— Charlotte Bronte
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
— James Cash Penney
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
— Thomas J. Watson
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
— Ho Chi Minh
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
— Charles de Montesquieu
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
— Harry S Truman
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
— Betty Ford
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
— Brigham Young
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
— George Henry Lewes
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.
— Priyanka Chopra
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
— John Hancock
Solitude is independence.
— Hermann Hesse
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
— Marsha Blackburn
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
— Walt Whitman
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
— Michelle Williams
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
— Walt Disney
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
— Booker T. Washington
If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, we must first thoroughly reexamine and learn about each of them, and uphold America's founding documents by testing every political action in light of them.
— Chuck Norris
It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.
— James Monroe
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
— Abraham Lincoln
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
— Ho Chi Minh
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
— Caroline Kennedy
I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.
— William Wallace
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
— John Adams
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
— Henry Van Dyke
Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people.
— Donald Trump
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
— Marshall McLuhan
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
— Muqtada al Sadr
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
— Mahalia Jackson
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
— Corliss Lamont
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
— Susan B. Anthony
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
— Abraham Lincoln
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!
— Deborah Sampson
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.
— Shashi Tharoor
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.
— John Marshall
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.
— John Muir
The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.
— Ariel Sharon
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
— Calvin Coolidge
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
— Davy Crockett
I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
— Janet Yellen
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
— James A. Baldwin
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
— Jim Rohn
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
— Jackie Robinson
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
— Albert II of Belgium
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
— Carl Bernstein
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
— David Ben-Gurion
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
— Paul Ryan
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
— John Piper
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
— Thomas Frank
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
— Mercy Otis Warren
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
— Jalal Talabani
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
— Gerald F. Lieberman
If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
— Bernie Sanders
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.
— Michael Pollan
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
— Howard Zinn
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
— Ian Smith
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
— Mercy Otis Warren
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
— Mercy Otis Warren
I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order the judiciary had the power of complete independence justice was fully exercised. 
— Alfredo Stroessner
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
— Rafael Cruz
When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.
— Richard Branson
Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.
— Neil Gorsuch
I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
— Maika Monroe
Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.
— Howard Jacobson
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
— Ken Auletta
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
— Nelson Mandela
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
— Ferdinand Marcos
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.
— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
— Neel Mukherjee
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.
— Noam Chomsky
Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There's very little proof that Obama or anyone in his administration - particularly Hillary Clinton - truly understands or believes the tenets in the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. If they did, they would know that they are running a federal government in direct contradiction to both of those sacred documents.
— Chuck Norris