Ian Williams Quotes

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six—the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

You can play the piano with the white keys only or you can play it with only the black keys. But for harmony you must use the black and the white keys.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

I don't think balance is ever achieved in the full sense of the word.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.