Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin the head of abp Chartered Architects, likes the following quotes:     (PS.  Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin will add more as time passes  )


1.   He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. 

Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin, likes this quote by Nietzsche, because it reminds him of the pain he sometimes has to endure.  Those who know Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin, will know what he has been through and is still going through.


2.  "I don't intend to build in order to have clients; I intend to have clients in order to build." 

This quote from The Fountainhead  novel by Ayn Rand , sums up the feeling Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin, would like to have about his architecture.


3.  “There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.”

This quote from Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, is something that Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin hopes that all his clients wish aspire to.  


4.   " Never argue with an idiot.  They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience"

Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin's ex-business partner used to say this.  Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin recently felt this way due to a particular situation happening, only to discover it was first quoted by George Carlin, or according to a Google search Mark Twain.


5.  "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"

Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin of abp Architects just likes this inspirational quote from T.S Elliot


6.   "There are two primary choices in life:  to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them"

An inspirational quotation from Denis Waitley, that Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin of abp Architects, a Bromley architectural practice also likes


7.   “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

A strange (if not weird) place to find the following notable quotation from Buddha, in a book on chess wisdom being read by Bernard Humphrey-Gaskin of abp Architects of Bromley, London, Kent.