Daniel Libeskind Quotes

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die.

My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

I was always a dreamer with high aspirations, but I kept coming up short my whole life.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.