Top 13 Samuel Mockbee Quotes
#1. Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.
Samuel Mockbee
#2. The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.
Samuel Mockbee
#3. The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.
Samuel Mockbee
#6. If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession's responsibilities.
Samuel Mockbee
#7. Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day ...
Norman Doidge
#8. It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion
Samuel Mockbee
#9. I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.
Samuel Mockbee
#10. Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one's culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.
Samuel Mockbee
#11. Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.
Nathalia Crane
#12. Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.
Chuck D
#13. Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.
Leonard Read
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