Rem Koolhaas Quotes

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."

Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.

If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to controlling oil. That means the destruction of the Iraqi national identity, since the Iraqis are committed to their principles and rights according to international law and the U.N. charter.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.

You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

We're all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads. The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

"We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.