Design Quotes - Page 18

• Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

  Patti Smith

  Adventure, Fate, Lucky

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• I have 17 dogs and I like to dress them, so I started designing this clothing line and it's really cute, like dresses and jeans - everything you can imagine for humans, but for dogs.

  Paris Hilton

  Cute, Dog, Clothing Line

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• The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pyramids, Tiny, Bedroom

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• I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Enjoy

  "Michael Kors: American Idol". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

  Stanley Tucci

  Directors, Doe, Film

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• I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

  Diana Ross

  Fashion, School, Lines

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• It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
  That's good design.

  Sepp Holzer

  Looks, Way, Made

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• You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  Zoey Deutch

  Wells, Borderline, Clothings

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• Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could have his own special collection out.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Couple, Years, Shoes

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• I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

  Ed Westwick

  Beautiful, Summer, Flower

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 22, 2009.

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• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.

  Sim Van der Ryn

  Book, Journey, Discovery

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• Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

  Peter Shumlin

  Cost, Care, Containment

  "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Travel, Humor

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 27

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• Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

  Michael Bierut

  Favors, Ready

  Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.13, Chronicle Books

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• Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Imagination, Information

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• Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

  Tim Blixseth

  Motivational, Greatness, Ideas

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• Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

  Karim Rashid

  Life, Emotion, Improvement

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• We should tell more young designers not to worry about what they're going to do with their design careers. They should start their own brands. Designers should create their own beautiful brands that can change the world.

  Karim Rashid

  Beautiful, Careers, Worry

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• Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stupidity, Religion, Trends

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

  Kate Elliott

  Father, Ignorance, Triumph

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• The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

  Mark Weiser

  Life, Creativity, Technology

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• Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.

  Bill Buxton

  Thinking, Impact, Names

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• Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

  Jared Spool

  Target, Currents, Happens

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• The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend enough time exploring before locking themselves into a design approach.

  Jared Spool

  Moving, Enough Time, Exploration

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