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Design Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to…
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the…
- The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.
- The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and…
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
- There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance…
- But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him…
- Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; - and…
- And DANTE searched the triple spheres, Moulding nature at his will, So shaped, so colored, swift or still, And, sculptor-like, his large design Etched on…
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- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks