Julian Lincoln Simon Quotes

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.

I just build and build more yall niggas build and destroy

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

They want to create rather than decimate.

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun.

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Those who don't build must burn.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

It is opposition that makes us productive.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over. We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

In a time of destruction, create something.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.