Design Quotes - Page 23

• Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  Aaron Copland

  Inspirational, Art, Self

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• He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

  Irving Stone

  Self, Canvas, Made

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

  David Ogilvy

  Senior, Men, Ideas

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.94, Profile Books

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• Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

  Simon Campbell

  Knitting, Suffering, Fool

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• It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

  Louis Silverstein

  Editors, Doe, Paper

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• The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

  Jonathan Ive

  Apples, Alternatives, Making Money

  "Apple Story of the Day: Arise, Sir Jony Ive". www.computerworld.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Amber, Language, Embedded

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.24

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• I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

  William Beck

  Thinking, Creative, Doe

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• There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

  Edward Tufte

  Confusing, Information, Overload

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• To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Fashion, Flower, Color

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• I have dedicated my time here on earth to find the tools that can help each of us experience an extraordinary quality of life. I do believe that such a life can only be found by living one's true passion. Without passion, an individual gets caught in the trap of making a living instead of designing a life. When we fall into the trap of getting up each day to reenact an "ordinary" existence, we find ourselves at a level that is merely one of survival.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Fall, Passion

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• In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

  Aristotle

  Art, Color, Giving

  Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron), Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Allen Moxon (1934). “Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica”

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• I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to stick to convention. If anything you can call it rebellious but certainly not creative.

  Paul Scriven

  Mean, Icons, Creative

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• When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

  Randall Munroe

  Sex, Tangled, Hot

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• It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

  James Victore

  Perfect, Whittling

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• Theory can blind observation.

  Carol Gilligan

  Blind, Theory, Observation

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.

  William Bernbach

  Can Do, Ifs

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• The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

  Dave Winer

  People, Easier

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• A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Success, Men, Compassion

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• Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Age, Inexperience, Able

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• Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten the destruction of the best design for self-government yet devised by the minds of men. Its passage will mark one of the darkest days in history

  Strom Thurmond

  Men, Self, People

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• By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Expression, Understanding, Overcoming

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.200, New World Library

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• Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

  Paul Davies

  Numbers, Evolution, Sensitive

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• Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Life, Women, Two Sides

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