"In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the…" — Jane Jacobs
"In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details."
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57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site.
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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for…
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse,…
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex…
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More Details Quotes
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one of 1,302 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
— Giorgio Armani
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
— Andrea Arnold
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget…
— Banksy
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in…
— Drew Barrymore
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
— Victoria Beckham
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a…
— Annie Besant
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
— Manolo Blahnik
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color…
— Benjamin Britten
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