To be a good designer, you have to be half-psychologist.
~ Dieter Rams
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The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.
~ Peter Drucker
Things to do in Gropius Park
Hofstadter-Lasch Gallery of Art
For readers both in Gropius Park and across Western New York and Northern Pennsylvania – the Hofstadter-Lasch Gallery has added a second piece by friend of HigherED.zone Merlin Otello. This one is titled “Untitled 713” – a piece that Seamas Anstruther has express fondness for.
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What we call land is an element of nature inextricably interwoven with man’s institutions. To isolate it and form a market for it was perhaps the weirdest of all the undertakings of our ancestors.
― Karl Polanyi
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
~ Franz Kafka
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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It is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Good design is environmentally friendly.
~ Dieter Rams
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
~ Peter Drucker