Donald Norman Quotes

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

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• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Experience
  • Changes

• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Clothes
  • Thank God

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Love
  • Job
  • Fear

• Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Man

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Decisions

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Succeed

• The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

  

  Kajol
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Simple

• It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard, that's our history! We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

  

  George Carlin
  • Different
  • Country
  • American

• Americans and British respondents don't want to let the German people off the hook. They make the case that if you get rid of Hitler, some other leader apart from Hitler would have emerged and, because of the structural constant of German nationalism, would have exploited German national feeling and produce the same kind of events no matter what.

  

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld
  • Leader
  • Events
  • Americans

• By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.

  

  Charles Martin Smith
  • People
  • Giving
  • Chance

• As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Purpose