I hope that America as a whole, and espe...

Hope Will World

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

- Tadao Ando

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I boxed 15 years in a club.

- Uwe Boll

Other quotes by Tadao Ando

Nature

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

- Tadao Ando

Women Freedom Men People

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

- Tadao Ando

Beauty People

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

- Tadao Ando

Technology

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

- Tadao Ando

Work

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

- Tadao Ando

People

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

- Tadao Ando

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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

- Caleb Cushing

Smile Hope World

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

- Richard M. DeVos

Hope

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

- Aristotle

Hope Nothing

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

- Friedrich Schiller

Thoughts Hope Past

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

- Mattie Stepanek

Hope May

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

- Franz Schubert