Top 29 Harry Seidler Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#3. 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
#4. The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
Harry Seidler
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#11. I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Harry Seidler
#12. She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie
Liane Moriarty
#13. Work travel for me, which is - I hate to say it - more enjoyable now that I have kids.
Gabrielle Reece
#14. 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
#15. You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.
Catherynne M Valente
#16. Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#17. At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
Harry Seidler
#19. Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.
Michael Kurland
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
Harry Seidler
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
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