Howard Roark Quotes

• But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Think Of You

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• I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Numbers, Energy

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

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• Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

  Ayn Rand

  Important, Purpose, Way

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• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Challenges

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Soul, Doe

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.551, Penguin

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• My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Fountainhead, Dear

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.20, Penguin

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• You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Attitude, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.552, Penguin

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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Badass, Bad Ass, Order

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• The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

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• A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Men, Ideas

  "Fictional character: Howard Roark". "The Fountainhead", www.imdb.com. 1949.

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• I am a man who does not exist for others.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Doe, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

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• The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

  Ayn Rand

  Artist, Men, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.72, Penguin

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• Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Wish, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.369, Penguin

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• The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, World

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Fountainhead, Minutes, One Minute

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

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• Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

  Ayn Rand

  People, Want, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.30, Penguin

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• You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark

  Ayn Rand

  Gratitude, Men, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.749, Penguin

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• Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Fire

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• This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Feelings, World, Wonder

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.751, Penguin

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• I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Death, Bad Ass

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

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• "You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

  Ayn Rand

  Action, Fountainhead, Born

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• I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

  Neil Peart

  Hero, Writing, Thinking

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• Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

  Neil Peart

  Role Models, Choices, Age

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