Quotes by Designers - Page 2

In geometry, as in nature, the circle is the archetypal shape of wholeness and inclusion. It is an effective shape for nonprofits or community-focused efforts.
Maggie Macnab
Color is powerful. It is almost physiologically impossible to be in a bad mood when you're wearing bright red pants.
Jessi Arrington
Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's gold.
Bruce Littlefield
Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.
William Morris
The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society.
Owen Jones
She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young
Owen Jones
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda
Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.
Peleg Top
Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. They have no need for documentation of provenance. Wabi-sabi-ness in no way depends on knowledge of the creator's background or personality. In fact, it is best if the creator is no distinction, invisible, or anonymous.
Leonard Koren
I am not here to serve myself. I am not here to be lauded, petted, admired or ‘affirmed.’ I am here to build men, cultures and kingdoms. When I find myself in the midst of difficulties and pain, will I persevere, or will I become a coward and pity myself? We do not have time for self-pity! We have much to do, and the hour is late! We need a broader vision of home than just ourselves as wives and mothers, sisters and daughters. We need to understand that we are to work to build Christ’s kingdom—for eternity!
Jennie Chancey
Try not to compromise. So many people don’t do what they really want in their hearts because they feel like they’re not good enough, or they’re not smart enough, or they’re not talented enough… anything. And that doesn’t matter. In order for you to live a remarkable life — in order for you to live a life that is fulfilling — you need to be able to go after what you want. And if you don’t, you’re not going to achieve it — ever.
Debbie Millman
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.
Ralph Caplan
Let us summarize these three points more concisely:(a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair.(b) “Objective” work, undertaken with the silent hope that the end product will nevertheless eventually be regarded as a work of art.(c) Consciously goal-directed work in architecture, which will have a concise artistic effect on the basis of well-preparated objective-scientific criteria.Such an architecture will actively raise the general standard of living. This represents the dialectic of our development process, which purports to arrive at the affirmative by negation — a process similar to melting down old iron and forging it into new steel.
El Lissitzky
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Cecil Beaton
I would like Britain - and indeed other countries - to be run in the interests of people's needs and aspirations, rather than on the basis of profit for a small elite; for democracy to be democratically managed by working people; for democracy to be extended as far as possible, including in the workplace and the economy.
Owen Jones
Setbacks are just stepping stones to great things.
Teresa Collins
To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.
Veronique Vienne
Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.
Charles Eames
Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an "acceptable" rate.
William McDonough
You can't draw water from an empty well.
Emily Ley
The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.
Owen Jones
Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.
Michael Graves
Light is impressionism.
Gae Aulenti
It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
Jony Ive
The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.
Owen Jones
We live in a society of {more, faster, and extra.} So we feel the need to respond {more, faster, and extra.} Such a useless exercise. So much joy can be found in slowing down.
Emily Ley
There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.
Bruce Littlefield
Omit the non-essential.
Per Mollerup
I missed the moonlight, the stars. There were times I forgot that there was an entire universe above the clouds. It was as if a shroud had been pulled around the Earth. Over time, we would forget everything that we had once struggled so hard to observe and learn and prove. We would forget about Jupiter and its churning storms. We would forget about the Big Dipper, about Halley's comet. We would stumble across telescopes in old department stores and never give them a second look, never wonder about the things they once made large.
Jason Gurley
We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom.
Teresa Collins
I understood and agreed that from a feminist perspective working in a strip club was extremely problematic, but I was saving money to travel and making more in one night than most of my friends made in a week. Plus, it was interesting.
Periel Aschenbrand
The best... measure of innovation is change in human behavior.
Stuart Butterfield
Making a beautiful, happy home is not about what we don't have or what we want to buy. It's all about what we do have, and how incredibly precious it all is. It's about how we spend the days we're given with this family of ours, and making the home we share a place our kids will love to describe to our grandchildren. It's about making our kids' memories delightful.
Gabrielle Stanley Blair
If Enlightenment was the salad, Entanglement is the soup
Neri Oxman
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
Sarah Jessica Parker
Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting symmetry and compelling asymmetry, and its thoughtful application can bring beauty and harmony and intrigue to all manner of designed things.
Darrin Crescenzi
It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman Curtis
Fuel your life with passion.
Teresa Collins
Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.
Charles Platt
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.
Kevin McCloud
You must be Independent, Independent, Independent - don't talk so much but do more - go your own way and let your neighbour go his... Shake off all the props - the props tradition and authority give you - and go alone - crawl - stumble - stagger - but go alone.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
She once told him about the mysterious trampled-down places found in fields, which the peasants superstitiously called werewolves' nests. Coming across one of these sites, she fell to her knees and buried her face in the flattened yellow grasses, hoping to inhale the odor of a werewolf, a csordásfarkas. As if his scent was a charm. She smelled nothing but hay burned by the afternoon sun.
Jody Shields
Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry.
Johnathan Key
A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.
Gianni Sarcone
What I love most about my home is who I share it with.
Tad Carpenter
It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.
Maggie Macnab
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
Sarah Jessica Parker
O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
William Morris
I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
Bruce Mau