Design Quotes

3017 Design quotes by 1636 unique authors

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… — Jared Spool
A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don’t have to go through any training to get there When a… — Jared Spool
When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at… — Jared Spool
Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air… — Jared Spool
I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like… — Dayo Okeniyi
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It… — Oscar Niemeyer
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What… — George Nelson
Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you… — David Emerald Womeldorff
All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in… — Grover Norquist
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and… — John Tillotson
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let… — Peter Singer
Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as… — William A. Dembski
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors.… — John Redwood
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own… — Charles Dudley Warner
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their… — Nathanael Emmons
One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is… — Thomas Jefferson
Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,… — Thomas Paine
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here… — Thomas Paine
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. — Henry Fielding
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of… — Polybius
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which… — Unknown Author
There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design. — Michele Bachmann
Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way,… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is… — Robert Rauschenberg

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