Latest Paula Scher Quotes from Interviews

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• It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.

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  Home, Weekend, Thinking

• To me what really matters is that it shouldn't matter to you what day of the week it is.

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  Matter, Week, Days Of The Week

• I like what I do. So why would I want to stop doing it?

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  Want

• The idea of retirement seems to imply that you stop doing what you always did. Why would you do that? I don't get that.

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  Retirement, Ideas, Seems

• My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that does that, or you become the person that does that. You really need to change the form to make the discovery.

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  Discovery, Expectations, Ordinary

• I'm hoping that I continue to be innovative on things that are tremendously visible and are still important projects.

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  Important, Projects, Innovative

• Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.

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  Past, Thinking, Want

• I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

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  Get Better, Done, Want

• I'm most proud of the fact that I get to keep growing.

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  Growing, Proud, Facts

• I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

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  Architecture

• What makes me say "wow" is usually something I haven't encountered, in a new way... something I haven't encountered before or something I have encountered that I see in a new way.

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  Wow, Way, Havens

• What makes me say "wow" continually changes. It changes based on what I know.

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  Wow, Knows

• If I know something well, it no longer makes me say "wow" even if it's really terrific, even if it's a great iteration of it, because I know it well.

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  Wow, Wells, Terrific

• What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

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  Hate, Done, Embarrassing

• You have to have a lot of kids.

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  Kids

• When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.

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  Knows

• I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them.

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  Creative, Done, Break

• I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.

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  Thinking, Creative, Trying

• Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.

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  People, Needs, Stuff

• For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.

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  Thinking, People, Get Better

• Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

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  Creativity, Long, Long Time

• Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.

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  Creativity, Culture, May

• We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.

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  People, Creative, Different

• We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.

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  Way

• I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

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  Kids, Generations, Grew Up