Compulsion Quote by Rem Koolhaas

The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded…

— Jacques Barzun

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

— David Rakoff

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends…

— Aldous Huxley

“We practice wonder by resisting the temptation to hurry past things worth seeing, but it can take work to transcend our preconceived standards for…

— Lynada Lynn Haupt

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

— Catherynne M. Valente

What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that…

— Jonathan Ive

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is…

— Victor LaValle

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

— Chick Corea

I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that…

— Phillip Lim

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

— Laura Nyro

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

— Andrew Michael Ramsay