Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.


Rem Koolhaas

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD
Bound by custom or unique by choice.
MARGARET MCHEYZER
In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON
- I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING
He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
ERIN HUNTER
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI
You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER
Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES
Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK
The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES
Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER
It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL
Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER
If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER
If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER
I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
I love my destruction. Cause I still love the cause of my destruction -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
She broke her own heart by holding him into it.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
You know your value, Only when someone else crumbles it... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno...
GARY F EVANS...
Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY
His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart.. - Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
ANSHIKA JAIN
It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN
Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself .... ...
ANSHIKA JAIN
The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
Their story was just a chapter to him... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
DONALD RAY POLLOCK
Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
KYLIE SCOTT
There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE
There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST)
If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS...
To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS...
I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN
This world is a joke, and I'm in it
OLIWAH GOUDEE
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA
I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA
Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN
I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN
DOES IT LOOK LIKE, I CARE ABOUT YA?
DEYTH BANGER
I didn't think it would be a multiple-shot victory. You had a three-way tie at the top and everybody...
TOM KITE
If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI
Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Don't think it. Do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
We had our chance with a six-on-four at the end to score a goal. It was in our hands to tie it up.
DAINIUS ZUBRUS
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can...
NED VIZZINI
It was a huge game for us. Obviously, we have to win out to have any chance for regular season champ...
CHARLI TURNER THORNE
It's life. You deal with it or you don't.
PINDER BUCKLEY
Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON
I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER
If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,...
EMORY R. FRIE
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ...
JOHN GREEN
Don't dream it, be it.
TIM CURRY
When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi...
GARY F EVANS...
To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde...
GARY F EVANS...
You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidew...
STEPHEN KING
It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96
dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER
The only thing to do with good advice is to carry it and pass it on; it is never of any use if you d...
KIM GROSHEK
If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA
Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.
HODA KOTB
Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT
Do it and they will follow
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON
It was more a feeling of hunger than anything else.
BRADY QUINN
A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY
That's how it happen!
DEYTH BANGER

More Rem Koolhaas

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper cons...
REM KOOLHAAS
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthrou...
REM KOOLHAAS
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also l...
REM KOOLHAAS
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More an...
REM KOOLHAAS
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that ...
REM KOOLHAAS
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discre...
REM KOOLHAAS
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Someti...
REM KOOLHAAS
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the ...
REM KOOLHAAS
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
REM KOOLHAAS
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
REM KOOLHAAS
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another...
REM KOOLHAAS
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human...
REM KOOLHAAS
When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of t...
REM KOOLHAAS
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incr...
REM KOOLHAAS
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewher...
REM KOOLHAAS
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining ...
REM KOOLHAAS
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a r...
REM KOOLHAAS
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
REM KOOLHAAS
Architecture has died and been replaced by air conditioning.
REM KOOLHAAS
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - ...
REM KOOLHAAS
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and list...
REM KOOLHAAS
We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a spa...
REM KOOLHAAS
The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end ...
REM KOOLHAAS
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
REM KOOLHAAS
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
REM KOOLHAAS
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in te...
REM KOOLHAAS
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning...
REM KOOLHAAS
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essen...
REM KOOLHAAS
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
REM KOOLHAAS
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier th...
REM KOOLHAAS
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these citie...
REM KOOLHAAS
It was really frightening. I'd never even heard of such a thing. I had no mobility. There were some ...
REM MURRAY
I wasn't sure I'd ever play a game again.
REM MURRAY