Alan Watts Quotes

What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think of it as a landscape or country. Each point in the country is a Now.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.