Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.