"Ask Eero what made an architect great and he thought for a few minutes and he said: "You know my father Eliel would have said outgoing, out do other architects, that you do more work and you out do them and you do it better. I think that I would have to say sisu, the Finnish word for guts, it takes the guts and courage to go forward with your conviction with others around you may die, I think that is what really makes a good architect."
Architecture and Urbanism, April 1984 Extra edition, 234.
