Petr Prucha quotes

  • Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  • You don't need vision to be a visionary.

  • You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary

  • But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

  • The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  • ... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

  • American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil,

  • You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

  • Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.

  • It was a good shot, but he didn't execute it very well.

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