Barbara Hulanicki on fighting
Barbara Hulanicki5 quotes“I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight it. Just to be very quiet, let them get on with it and let them really mess it up.”
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In Miami they’re building all these hideous monstrosities. It’s just so easy to be an architect, once you’ve got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There’s nothing creative in any of them.
Barbara HulanickiBarbara Hulanicki I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.
Barbara HulanickiBarbara Hulanicki People lost the capacity of using their brain. It’s all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.
Barbara HulanickiBarbara Hulanicki I’m back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.
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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
Ben OkriBen Okri They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
Ben HechtBen Hecht We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Cumberbatch You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
Ben BernankeBen Bernanke We have a great objective – the light on the hill – which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.
Ben ChifleyBen Chifley I think I’m aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.
Barry ZitoBarry Zito Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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