Harry Seidler Quotes

#1. Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#2. Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Harry Seidler

#3. Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

Harry Seidler

#4. From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

Harry Seidler

#5. Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

Harry Seidler

#6. El Shaddai. My all-sufficient God who is able to handle all my needs. Everything I will ever need I can find in Him. Think about that for a moment. Do you sense the power He offers us in those words? There is nothing, absolutely nothing in your life that He cannot handle.

Diane Moody

#7. As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

Harry Seidler

#8. If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Harry Seidler

#9. After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Harry Seidler

#10. Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

John C. Maxwell

#11. The professionals must set a good example.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#12. Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

Michael Kurland

#13. How long Lord must I wait?
Nevermind child, trust me.

Elisabeth Elliot

#14. At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

Harry Seidler

#15. In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

John M. Gottman

#16. You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Harry Seidler

#18. Work travel for me, which is - I hate to say it - more enjoyable now that I have kids.

Gabrielle Reece

#19. She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie

Liane Moriarty

#20. I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Harry Seidler

#21. The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#22. Good design doesn't date.

Harry Seidler

#23. Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Harry Seidler

#25. The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

Harry Seidler

#26. Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

Harry Seidler

#27. The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Harry Seidler

#28. What part of life isn't peculiar? Seriously? At what point, really, do you stop and say, well, THIS is really strange? THIS part. Not THAT part. But THIS part.

Robin Black

#29. If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

Frank Lloyd Wright