Almost perfect Quote by Rem Koolhaas Download Open image “We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.” — Rem Koolhaas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Almost perfect Incredibles Perfect Serenity Stillness Urgency
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Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest. — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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