Civility grants strangers a degree of respect until they lose it. Incivility grants strangers no respect until they earn it.
Civility grants strangers a degree of respect until they lose it. Incivility grants strangers no respect until they earn it.
If it’s on sale and you need it, you’re saving money. If its on sale and you don’t need it, you’re spending money.
Let’s bet on it… then we’ll find a way to make it work.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
Either invention or tradition, taught without the reasons why, is mere stylism.
That which bites you is usually not what you feared, and that which rewards you is often not that which you hoped for.
We won’t do things we don’t like long-term, but we CAN change what we like, and then do that long-term. Subtly different, all-important.
Read bad-news messages quickly. Every hour you wait you carry the burden of the worst possible news you can imagine it to be. Rarely is the real news worse than the imagined news. Usually it’s better. Sometimes it’s even good news.
If it can’t be loved, it won’t last. A building’s carbon footprint is meaningless once its parts are carted off to the landfill.
Chance favors the connected mind.
Don’t be nice. Be kind.
Who must have expressways in cities? Not city-dwellers… they’re there already. Expressways in cities are necessities only for suburbanites who commute.
Those who need speed the most are those who are furthest from their destination. If you’re close enough, you can just walk.
Decorated Subdivision: Standard sprawl with a few added walking trails, sidewalks, and a gazebo, then promoted in a great sham as New Urbanism.
Greatness is not a light switch. You can’t just turn it off and on. You have to live it.