- True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
- We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” – Leo Tolstoy
- The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
- There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
- The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy
- Some mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.' – Leo Tolstoy
- The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. – Leo Tolstoy
- The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. – Leo Tolstoy
- All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
- Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. – Leo Tolstoy
Friday, 15 April 2016
Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
Friday, 1 April 2016
Zaha Hadid's Quotes
In the memory of Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, born on October 31, 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the
first woman and the first Muslim to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize,
winning it in 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. She died of
heart attack on March 31, 2016, at Miami, Florida,
United States.
- I really believe in the idea of the future.
- My friendships are very important to me.
- Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
- Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
- What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
- I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
- Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
- Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
- I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
- I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
- Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Quote a Smile
- All people smile in the same language.
- You are not fully dressed without a smile.
- A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Never regret something that once made you smile.
- The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
- You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
- One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
- Give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
- You’ve got to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you’ve got.
- There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Quotes on Innovation
- The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
- If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
- I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
- Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
- You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
- Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
- There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of mankind, with the possible exception of the sword.
- Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
Monday, 29 February 2016
Spring Quotes
- From the end spring new beginnings.
- Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!
- An optimist is the human personification of spring.
- No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
- No words can describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring.
- Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
- It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
- You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep the Spring from coming.
- When you see a glow on the face of every living being, Spring has arrived.
- The day the God created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
- Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Quotes on Hope
- Hope is a waking dream.
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- When you have lost hope, you have lost everything.
- A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
- Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
- There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies
Monday, 15 February 2016
Spring Quotes
- Arrival of spring has always been therapeutic for me.
- Spring lays wreath of flowers on the death of winter.
- Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
- Spring is in deed source of spring of joy oozing from our heart.
- During Spring earth start writing rhymes of flowers on her body.
- You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
- Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
- No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
- Spring of my heart irrigate my body the way nature's spring nurtures plants and trees.
- Autumn spreads nudity where as spring comes up to dress to plants and trees in colourful flowers.
- Spring waters turn into steam in summer to become ice in winter so it could again travel through mountains and gorges as aromatic spring water.
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