The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.


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JAMES VAN DER BEEK
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
ROGER VAN DER HEIDE
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destro...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but n...
ANNELIESE VAN DER POL
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 19...
SIMON VAN DER MEER
I remember the moment when I looked at a newsstand and stared at myself on a cover for the first tim...
FREDERIQUE VAN DER WAL
..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a f...
ONNO VAN DER HART
The psychological impact of trauma in both the military and civilian arenas has been documented for ...
ONNO VAN DER HART
We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solu...
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE
There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER
Dit is geen kroeg of studentehuis. Dit is een ziekenhuis en het is niet de bedoeling dat hier 's avo...
MYRTHE VAN DER MEER
Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
LAURENS VAN DER POST
We have the responsibility to care for the ocean as it cares for us
SUZANNE VAN DER VEEKEN
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the c...
LAURENS VAN DER POST
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
LAURENS VAN DER POST
I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and s...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK
The contrast with the scans of the eighteen chronic PTSD patients with severe early-life trauma was ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
Never cut short your waiting with compromise. Simply put, the waiting's not over until the waiting's...
DUKE ROHE
They're going to need supplements to keep up with the other (calves).
JIM ROHE
Waiting may seem in the way of us getting to where we want to go. But many times, it is through wait...
DUKE ROHE
I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
BEFRIENDING THE BODY

Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and b...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gna...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
I live my life to the Power of "E.X.T.R.E.M.E." but i can multiply it by whatever is on the table...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Leave your Legacy on earth when you leave, to continue changing lives when you no longer can..
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
If your doors keep on becoming walls, your ideas are not explosive enough...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
You can stand first in line at the door of destiny, but only you can open it and walk through...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
We are not living in a tech starved world, so how do we build the next biggest thing? One idea at a ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Walking a thousand roads throughout my life, some good and some bad. I realised the one constant was...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
There were times i was sure and i tried, then times i was not sure and i never tried...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Instead of trying to change the world, rebuild it in code...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
I believe that one day we will all be free, on this day our time on earth will be done...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
We all have a time and place, we would return to in the blink of an eye...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Your passion can be measured by success, the more passionate you are the more determined you will be...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
To master your enemy, is to master their mind. Once you own their mind, you own them...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Any argument that is built wholly upon the denigration of another, without any reference to evidence...
JOHANNES DIRK VAN DER MEER
Beauty is not a mindset, its how you set that beautiful mind...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
In a world that has everything, it’s time to create the nothing...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Life is short with room for mistakes, just don't let mistakes take up too much room...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
If time is all we have, then time is all we need...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
When i didn't pass anyone, i thought i was running the race of life alone. Then i realised i was in ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Just take another shot, because one more shot might be all you have got...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
We all have a love for something, its what we love that ultimately sets us apart...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Rebooting my life... Please wait...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
When we change the world, we try to change future events, time lines, outcomes or even sources of ev...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
The Ghost's of your yesterday are knocking at your door, they want to give you back the key to your ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
I have wondered if world changers had any idea of the impact their vision would have on humanity. Ma...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
There were times in my life i thought for sure the end was near. But it was only the end of that tim...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Time may be a finely woven thread, yet it holds our yesterday, today and tomorrow together...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
Time will have its place, and every place will have its time...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE