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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.
Moustapha Akkad, Director (1909) |
Mukesh Ambani, Businessman (1957) |
Fisher Ames, Statesman (1758) |
Saskia De Brauw, Artist (1981) |
Stanley Fish, Writer (1938) |
Margaret Haddix, Author (1964) |
Konrad Adenauer, Statesman (1967) |
Jim Cantalupo, Businessman (2004) |
Charles Darwin, Scientist (1882) |