Designed Quotes
1141 quotes by 943 authors
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Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
— Henry Blackaby
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Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
— Robert Evans
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With the horses, you can’t let them call the shot part of the time and then you call the shot part of the time. They’re…
— Buck Brannaman
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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here.…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom…
— Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in…
— Barbara Demick
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A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of the provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different…
— Richard Neutra
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Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage…
— Donald A. Norman
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If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.
— Donald A. Norman
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When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
— Donald A. Norman
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A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it…
— Donald A. Norman
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Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it…
— Myles Horton
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In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.
— Keith Johnstone
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It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare…
— Murray Leinster
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Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
— Marc Prensky
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Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.
— Tarleton Gillespie
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I have worked in the homes of many successful people and have seen firsthand that everyone fails in life, but failure can be a gift…
— Jon Gordon
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Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling…
— Victor Papanek
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We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are…
— Laurence Gonzales
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Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything.
— Leonard Jacobson
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