At every step in the 10,000 steps during the making of a building, I am always asking which of the things that I can do next is the one which will be the best gift to God.

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• The reason why I must try and make the building as a gift to God is that this state of mind is the only one which reliably keeps me concentrated on what is.claim0.841
  The practical function of the religious attitude in making.
• The core of this necessary state of mind is that you make each building in a way which is a gift to God.claim0.806
  The central practical prescription of the chapter.
• If we do one thing at a time, and if what we do is wholesome and sound, then whatever comes next will work.hypothesis0.792
  A predictive statement encapsulating the confidence of living process.
• There are more bad next steps than good ones in a design process; typically perhaps 90-95 out of 100 possible next steps make the thing worse.claim0.784
  Quantitative intuition to justify radical skepticism toward early ideas.
• To make a building that lives, it must be allowed to unfold step by step in real time, both before and during construction; we cannot fake it.claim0.782
  The necessity of real-time unfolding for authentic living architecture.
• I believe that a builder who makes everything a hierarchy of beings in that primitive religious sense will, with no further instruction, succeed in making life in buildings.hypothesis0.780
  Predictive claim about the sufficiency of the being-rule for creating life.
• This is the moment when the building becomes architecture.claim0.777
  The brutal geometric moment — making positive elements, syncopated harmony, massive stones — is what transforms mere building into architecture
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.777
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.