"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | Like a chameleon, architecture can mimic any natural landscape it sits on. From a Swiss alp, to the British cliffs, to a nearby glacier, to Mexican basalt rock, to a volcano – such as the Renzo Piano Building Workshop has designed for the periphery of Naples. It’s as real estate agents say: context is everything. Whereas iconography usually means a shrinking or blowing-up of an image to fit the scale of the architecture, this enormous building (a shopping mall) has actually the size of a small volcano. This ‘crater’ has a diameter of 150 [ continue reading Volcano, by Piano ] hexagonal tiles In Felix Barber and Ralph Hyde’s superb book London as it might have been, we can read of a Victorian plan to change the structure of the London boroughs, part of a plan to prevent overcharging by cab drivers. via Kosmograd: Branding the boroughs 2. baumhäuser in Deutschland – which of course means …? via baumraum – baumhäuser in Deutschland. Over a decade ago, Tom Peters wrote in the popular article The Wow Project: “In the new economy, all work is project work. And you are your projects!” via The Seven Laws of Projects, and How to Break Them : The World : Idea Hub :: American Express OPEN Forum. Architectural and Design Team leadership services are required for the restoration of the Haggerston Baths, a public bath house in the London Borough of Hackney via Haggerston Baths restoration | News | Architects Journal. British Architecture, where function always follows form, does it again. “Once dubbed Wales’ “highest slum”, concerns have been raised about the cafe at the top of Snowdon following a £8.4m rebuild which opened in June. Visitors have complained of long queues, litter and poor cleanliness. The Snowdonia Society wants the National Park Authority, which owns the Hafod Eryri building, to give more details of the negative feedback.” via BBC NEWS | Wales | Snowdon cafe complaints concern. So according to this we, (the mouthy community described by LBH councillors and officers alike as misguided, fanciful and alarmist), were pretty damn accurate in our calculations for the costs of Clissold Leisure Centre. We said almost £50,000,000 they said, “nowhere near that”. This figure in the Freedom of Information disclosure won’t include officer-time, precautionary redundancy costs*, auditors’ fees, consultants’ fees, lawyers’ fees, recruitment costs, either! Mr Pipe is not expected to apologise to anyone anytime soon. Can anyone explain why the out-of-court, ‘no-blame’ settlement remains confidential? (This calculation also makes no mention of the additional £10,000,000 windfall grant [ continue reading well you could push our ignorant arses over with a soft stick – we were correct! ] Because it would be so popular with people who live and work in Hackney, if made more affordable, the Council has ring-fenced London Fields Lido as an upper middle-class, swim-snob’s playground. The Council, dutifully, works hard to support the GLL business model and their ‘seemingly’ low staffing levels. At last people are beginning to wonder about this only to be told, “oh if we did that the Lido would be used too much”. As the Council has made a mess of swimming pools for so many years and now does whatever its contractor requires to help them withhold [ continue reading London Fields ‘Swim for Some’ scheme questioned ] | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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