David Berman Quotes

• We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

  David Berman

  Technology, Skills, Addiction

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• Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.

  David Berman

  Today, Remember

  David Berman, “The Charm Of 5:30”

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• Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

  David Berman

  Communication, Together, Live For Today

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• Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

  David Berman

  Creativity, Awards, Design

  David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press

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• You can't change the feeling
  but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two

  David Berman

  Two, Feelings, Can't Change

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• When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

  David Berman

  Running, Who I Am, Becoming

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• Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie.

  David Berman

  Romance, Bourgeoisie, Douches

  "Song: San Francisco B.C. (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)". June 17, 2008.

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• There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

  David Berman

  Self, Advantage, Conversation

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• Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.

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  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

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• Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.

  David Berman

  Retirement, Morning, Two

  David Berman (2011). “The Great Philosophers:Berkeley: Berkeley”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

  David Berman

  Principles, Purpose, Care

  David Berman (1997). “Berkeley”

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• I am about to learn what it's like to live here.

  David Berman

  David Berman, “Self-Portrait At 28”

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• Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.

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  Wall, Blessed, Knowledge

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• For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.

  David Berman

  Ideas, Compass, Glances

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• It takes a society to raise a generation.

  David Berman

  Generations, Raises

  David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.15, Peachpit Press

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• It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.

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  Intelligent, Long Ago, Perspective

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• All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.

  David Berman

  Writing, Character, Albums

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• For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.

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  Sight, Mind, Vision

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• ...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.

  David Berman

  Hands, Magic, Signatures

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