Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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About Frank Lloyd Wright

Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his...

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does.

—Marcelene Cox

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It's always been and always will be the same in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman is tipped.

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A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

—Michael Winner

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Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

—Henri J. M. Nouwen

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I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

—Julian Barnes in The Sense of an Ending

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