Charles Landry Quotes

#1. I do not fear death. I see what has gone before, through eyes that are not of this body. When I dream, my visions are of days yet to be.

Cathy M. Donnelly

#2. Creativity cannot be really regulated, but it can be encouraged. The redevelopment or revitalization of a city is an art. It depends on the individual strengths of a place and the will of the leadership to bring about change. The goal is to establish a cultural infrastructure.

Charles Landry

#3. Never look in the mirror when your stressed it's contagious

Benny Bellamacina

#4. City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

Charles Landry

#5. Stars shine. This is self evident. What is not so evident however is the fact that it is not a passive activity but instead an active one.

Charles Michael Landry

#6. Hamburg will have a new and important attraction with which it can distinguish itself from other cities. But the important thing is that activities should not just be limited to the building, but that the concert hall should symbolize a general mood of creative rejuvenation.

Charles Landry

#7. Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

Charles Landry

#8. The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

E. Stanley Jones

#9. The words ran away with me.

Edna O'Brien

#10. While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

Saint Augustine

#11. Women alone stir my imagination ...

Virginia Woolf

#12. Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.

Charles Landry

#13. If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.

Stuart Duncan

#14. Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Olivia Wilde

#15. Another thing I like about German cities - and it's an advantage which they haven't sufficiently exploited yet - is that they are pioneers when it comes to environmental technologies. And green solutions are becoming more and more important.

Charles Landry