Donald Norman Quotes

Scientists are always skeptics.

Donald Norman

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• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Old

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Start
  • Strange
  • Research

• Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ignore

• We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Family
  • Think
  • Mirror

• The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Movie
  • Death
  • Political

• She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

  

  James Madison
  • Power
  • Abuse

• I like doing 25-minute intervals on the treadmill. I go back and forth with running and fast walking and keep changing the incline to high and low. Then I do 15 minutes of lifting light weights and all different kinds of sit-ups, squats, and stretches. I do this routine four days a week.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Different
  • High
  • Light

• If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Work

• As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Up
  • Team
  • Trust

• I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Live
  • Home
  • Girl

• If you can't take it, you won't make it.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole

• I was shy. I was more than shy.

  

  Marion Cotillard

• For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

  

  Atticus Ross Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

  

  Peter D. Mitchell

• I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Done
  • Regret

• Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Woman
  • Professional
  • Court

• I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Chance
  • Learned
  • Scientists

• There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Scientists
  • Physicians
  • No Reason

• I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • Government
  • Scientists
  • Dearth

• Scientists are always skeptics.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Scientists
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