What did not demolish me simply polished me.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: "Have you published anything?" - loosely translated as: I've never heard of you - and "What name do you write under?" - loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you.
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
Our. . . advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration. . . If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.
Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!
And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.
What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.
The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.
