What did Lewis Mumford mean by: Don’t take the will for the deed; get the deed. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA Copy
+ Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Birth, Growth, Immortality, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Trend is not destiny. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Destiny, Trends, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Family, Father, Grandmother, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Order and creativity are complementary. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Chaos, Creativity, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Courage, Motivational, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ War is a specific product of civilization. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Civilization, Products, War, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Past, Pessimist, Tradition, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Cities, Memories, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. - Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Don’t apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do. - Jean Monnet Economist
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. - Jean Patou Fashion designer · France
What is your greatest ambition in life?’ ‘To become immortal… and then die. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
