John Maeda Quotes

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

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• I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Think

• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Practice

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Political
  • Relationship
  • Suffering

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Day
  • Technology
  • Learning

• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Second Chance

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Church
  • Place
  • Last

• And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

  

  Meg Ryan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Road

• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Books
  • Before
  • Left

• There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?

  

  James Harvey Robinson
  • People
  • God
  • Sick

• The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens.

  

  Jared Cohen
  • World
  • Crush

• With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

  

  John Maeda
  • People
  • World