Design Quotes - Page 21

• We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

  Edward de Bono

  Judging, Judgement, Way

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• Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Future, Self, Issues

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• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Poverty, Poor

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• Get in over your head
  as often and as joyfully
  as possible.

  Alexander Isley

  Creativity, Over You

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• If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.

  Melissa George

  Home, Thinking, Acting

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• We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that’s not what sends you to heaven or Hell.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Heaven, Want

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• The linear design of FFXIII had a great advantage in providing players with enough time to become familiarized with the new battle system and the unique world. But on the other hand, it led to players feeling like the majority of the game was a tutorial.

  Motomu Toriyama

  Unique, Player, Hands

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• Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

  Hesiod

  Zeus, Occasions, Hard

  Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.77, JHU Press

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• It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

  Herodotus

  Outcomes, Favour, Sound

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.508, OUP Oxford

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• A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Inspirational, Taken, Harmonious

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• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Truth, Flower

  Yukio Mishima (1966). “Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

  Abdallah II

  Dream, Occupation, Today

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reality, Differences, Hypocrisy

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.286, Yale University Press

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• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

  John Ruskin

  Vices, Virtue, Building

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

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• Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

  Rick Lenz

  Lying, Best Business

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• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Motivational, Compassion, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013

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• What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Giving, Information

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• If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fear, Doubt, Woven

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• A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

  William Bernbach

  People, Campaigns, Failing

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• Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

  GZA

  Visuals, Habitual

  "Song: Reunited (Wu-Tang Forever)". March 30, 1998.

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• Well you're in your little room
  and you're working on something good
  but if it's really good
  you're gonna need a bigger room
  and when you're in the bigger room
  you might not know what to do
  you might have to think of
  how you got started sitting in your little room

  Jack White

  Thinking, Needs, Sitting

  "Little Room". Song by The White Stripes, 2001.

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• When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Thinking, Important

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• I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Stupid, Mean, Trying

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