Pablo Picasso Quotes

People are incredible creatures of habit.

Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.

We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

I've always lived in the same way.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

History repeats herself.

This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

There's a real passing down in the theater, almost ad nauseam. You have to listen to older people talk about their experience, but it makes you very aware of what has come before you or what is coming after you - that you're a part of a link in a chain. It's not all about you.

habit is our idea of eternity.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them?

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.