Design Quotes · Page 60

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

— Ralph Caplan

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

— Anonymous

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

— Johanna Drucker

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

— Naoto Fukasawa

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality

— Albert Hadley

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

— Jenny Packham

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

— Douglas Wilson

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design…

— Alan Turing

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it…

— Mark Twain

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and…

— Kenneth Clark

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies…

— Raymond Loewy

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that…

— Julia Roberts

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in…

— Eva Zeisel

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but…

— Aaron Betsky

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be…

— Chris Kirkpatrick

I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I…

— Amma Asante

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again,…

— Miles Franklin

On June 3, 2015, in keeping with a long tradition, I visited my home club in the Pepper Pike suburb of Cleveland,…

— Jim Nantz

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days…

— Pierre Charron

I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face,…

— Nancy Lancaster

The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the…

— Monita Rajpal

“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek…

— Samuel Colman

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

— Doug Cranmer

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

— Ralph Caplan

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.

— Regis McKenna

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

— John Maeda

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

— Joseph Beach

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

— Thom Browne

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

— Verner Panton

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

— Dieter Rams

...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

— Josh Quittner

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

— Jamie Zawinski

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

— Dante Ferretti

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

— John Dryden

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

— Edward Young

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

— Ramy Youssef

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

— John Cage