Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.

You want to look younger... rent smaller children.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

But I do realize I'm going to have to go through the pregnancy again. Mine was a really difficult pregnancy. It's tough. Of course I want to have another child. We'll see. I'm going to have one more, and see what it's like.

My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

We must become the people we want our children to be.