1. Follow your path, it leads to other things.
2. It’s okay to be a late bloomer, you do not have to rush yourself.
3. The first part of your life should be action and the second part should be reflection.
4. You have to believe and not be a fundamentalist, architecture is not only an answer, it’s a question.
5. Do not believe the old wives tale that you can guess what people think, because you never know.
6. If you build a building, you can change a city, you have to have a thick skin to move a project on.
7. The quality of the way people feel is not only about architecture, but tradition.
8. There is a connection between everything, nothing is ever just arbitrary.
9. You have to have a strong purpose in life, you can’t be swayed by cheap thrills.
10. There are so many cynics in the world who think that things will never happen. This is not good. You should compromise. It is good to enter into different fields, you can find something out about yourself.
Daniel Libeskind’s Ten Commandments to Becoming an Architect.