Accustomed Quote by Eric Gill Download Open image “Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.” — Eric Gill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accustomed Amount Design Inspirational Legibility Love Practice Typography
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it? — Wolfgang Weingart Copy Share Image
I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people. — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established — Confucius Copy Share Image
In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real. — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
