Design Quotes - Page 14

• You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

  Ed Paschke

  Interest, Concepts, Exploring

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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  'What is Art?' (1898) ch. 19 (translated by Maude)

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Sublime, Genius, Literature

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• When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

  Dwyane Wade

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "The GQ+A: Dwyane Wade On Getting Dressed, Buying A Watch, and Sitting in Tight Pants". Interview with Kristen Dold, www.gq.com. December 12, 2013.

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• It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

  Thom Browne

  Important, True To Yourself, Really True

  "Thom Browne Addresses Pratt Seniors on the Future of Fashion". Interview with Rebecca Moss, www.elle.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

  Dorothy Draper

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

  Bernard Arnault

  Creative, Management, Inspired

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• Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Death, Design Process, Aesthetic Beauty

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• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  Erik Adigard

  Philosophy, Crafts, Propaganda

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams.

  Roger Vivier

  Dream, Fashion, Reality

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• The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.

  Hillman Curtis

  Simple, Media, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Inspirational, Fashion, Icons

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Bible, Faith, Dream

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

  Clement Mok

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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• It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

  J. J. Abrams

  Success, White, Smartphones

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• Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.

  Arthur Compton

  Mean, Science, Men

  "The Human Meaning of Science".

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• You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

  William McDonough

  Inspiring, Water, Filters

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• As for journalism education, there are some terrifically exciting things going on in some schools. Others are struggling to adapt. Curriculum changes can be slow, by design. Yet there are arguably more dynamic minds, old and young, gravitating to teaching than ever before, both on the research and scholarly side and on the side of what is called "professional practice," a term that usually refers to experienced journalists without Ph.D's moving to the academy.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Struggle, Moving, Teaching

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• It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Journey, Choices, Given

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• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

  C. W. Ceram

  Inspirational, Teaching, Simple

  C.W. Ceram (2012). “Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology”, p.262, Vintage

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• Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.

  Walt Mossberg

  Real, Book, Remember You

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• Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

  John Searle

  Animal, Ideas, Achievement

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• Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memorable, Caring, Needs

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1990). “Composing a Life”, Plume

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