Architecture Quote by Krista Tippett Download Open image “Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.” — Krista Tippett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Calm Nature Structure Toddler
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are… — Jessica Seinfeld Copy Share Image
There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one is, one knows where one stands in relationship to the other. It seems that because man is born in the womb of the mother and for nine months remains in a structure, that continues deep down in the… — Rajneesh Copy Share
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place." — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“God delights in beauty, Islam teaches at its core, and is beauty. Beauty is in creation, not destruction, and in balance. It is in… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Spirituality doesn’t look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family even though you’ve had a long day. Or even saying to them, “Listen, I’ve had such a long day, but it would be really wonderful if I could just fold these—I’d really love… — Krista Tippett Copy Share
“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes and springs and historic sites, Indian trails, buildings, our tobacco farms included. And what happened after we did this very careful and very extensive inventory is, we fell in love with the place. Most of us… — Krista Tippett Copy Share
“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and part of your gift to the world. This is the beginning of wisdom. And what is true for individuals is true for peoples. Our problems are not more harrowing than the ravaging depressions and wars of… — Krista Tippett Copy Share
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.” — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image