Friday, 15 April 2016

Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

  1. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
  2. We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” – Leo Tolstoy
  3. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
  4. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
  5. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
  6. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy
  7. Some mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.' – Leo Tolstoy
  8. The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. – Leo Tolstoy
  9. 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
  10. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
  11. 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, 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.

  1. I really believe in the idea of the future.
  2. My friendships are very important to me.
  3. Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
  4. Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
  5. What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
  6. I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
  7. Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
  8. Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
  9. I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
  10. I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
  11. 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.