#ready

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#battery #beautiful #building #cheap #contradictory

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#child #learn #mentally #never #physically

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#am #anyone #becomes #i #i am

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#already #clout #concerned #daily #daily lives

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready. ↗

— Paul Waner

#back #bat #draw #draws #first

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#already #centuries #modern #more #much

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#already #believe #bring #consciousness #experiences

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#chapter #doing #every #everything #first

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up. ↗

— Jack White

#been #done #especially #haven #i

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#alfred hitchcock #already #any #because #by the time