Making Something Quotes

70 quotes by 66 authors

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something… — J. J. Abrams
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. — Dieter Rams
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making… — Fernand Leger
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. — Laurence J. Peter
The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief… — Eileen Caddy
That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new. — Tristen Gaspadarek
Never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will… — Mike Markkula
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act… — Michael Caine
If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me. — Kanye West
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and… — Jonathan Franzen
Real revenge is making something of yourself. — Gerard Way
Iâ€™m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. Itâ€™s certainly… — Deborah Eisenberg
If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge… — Satoru Iwata
Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence. — Christoph Niemann
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some… — Thomas Merton
Totally. I think things are beautiful when you donâ€™t plan them, and you donâ€™t have any expectations, and youâ€™re not trying to get somewhere in… — Alison Mosshart
Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is… — Molly Peacock
Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen. — Alan Keith
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. — Laurie Anderson
In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up. — Steve Erickson

Who Wrote These Making Something Quotes

66 authors contributed a total of 70 Making Something Quotes, led by these top contributors: