Alexander McCall Smith Quote

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.