John Maeda Quotes
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.John Maeda
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
J. B. Smoove -
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt -
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung -
I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
Francesco Carrozzini -
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
Taylor Swift -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth -
You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
D. B. Weiss -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson -
I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
Iman -
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Zig Ziglar -
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
Ted Turner -
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
Wayne Rooney -
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez -
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
Rachel Johnson
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When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.
Jennifer 8. Lee -
It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least tell you - what to do, or you have some supervision over you. Physicists like to be completely independent of each other. So that's a constant struggle. And it's a place that sometimes we get in trouble.
Barry Barish -
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
Mark McGwire -
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
Asghar Farhadi -
Night's son was drivingHis golden-haired horses up;Over the eastern firthsHigh flashed their manes.
Aurora -
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
John Maeda