Beatriz Colomina Quotes

#1. Pedestals aren't safe ... one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.

Sanjo Jendayi

#2. As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

Christopher Bollen

#3. Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort ... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

Peter Vidmar

#4. I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

Keith Green

#5. Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Beatriz Colomina

#6. You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

Steve Jobs

#7. Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

#8. If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

Fareed Zakaria

#9. I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.

Sam Hunt

#10. Never let fear of rejection from others, dictate the respect you show yourself.

Jill Thrussell

#11. If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

Jerry Ferrara

#12. When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.

Ren Ng

#13. What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

Tony Abbott

#14. I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

James Howard Kunstler

#15. Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality

Adam Clayton Powell III