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Landscape Architect Inspirational Quotes (319)

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I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.
Jack Nicklaus
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I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside.
Vito Acconci
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
Jack Nicklaus
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Charles Jencks
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
Roberto Burle Marx
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If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.
Jack Nicklaus
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
Maya Lin
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You have to watch your handicap. My son Steve says, Never make a putt you don't have to.
Jack Nicklaus
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I was never satisfied if I didn't win a major. I mean, not that year or any major I played, I wasn't satisfied unless I won it. But that's what our goals are. I'm sure that these guys' goals are the same as mine. They want to win every time they play. If you don't win, then you're not happy, obviously.
Jack Nicklaus
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
Maya Lin
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I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.
Jack Nicklaus
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Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
Jack Nicklaus
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The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
Lawrence Halprin
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Sometimes I think creativity is magic it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Maya Lin
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Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.
Kim Wilde
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When love's the culmination of everything you feel, then it's the only thing that's precious, it's the only thing that's real.
Kim Wilde
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The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll
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Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
A. W. Tillinghast
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We are a landscape of all we have seen.
Isamu Noguchi
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A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
Charles Jencks
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It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.
Isamu Noguchi
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I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.
Maya Lin
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
Maya Lin
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The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
Isamu Noguchi
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