Napoleon Hill Quotes

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

I like to build houses.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.