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title: Make No Little Plans
categories:
- work
content-tags:
- aside
- quotes
- design
- creativity
- urban
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> Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
> - Daniel H. Burnham, quoted in Charles Moore, [Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities][1] (1921), v.2, [p.147][2]

   [1]: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7205061M/Daniel_H._Burnham_architect_planner_of_cities
   [2]: http://www.archive.org/stream/danielhburnhamar02moor#page/147
