Dieter Rams Quotes

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

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• What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Now
  • Surface
  • Once

• With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Humor

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Own
  • Limits

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Leaving

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Money
  • Art

• Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

  

  John Otway
  • Good
  • Live
  • Career

• Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People
  • Why

• Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country?, contains ten chapters of fulminations convincing the convinced. However, Moore does include one chapter on how to argue with a conservative. As if. Approached by someone like Michael Moore, a conservative would drop a quarter in Moore's Starbucks cup and hurriedly walk away.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Book

• The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Fate

• Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • People
  • Help
  • Design