Zaha Hadid People Quotations

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?