Steve Jobs Quotes

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Steve Jobs

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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Like
  • Design
  • Act

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Yourself

• I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Proud
  • Design
  • Projects

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Kids
  • Design

• A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Work
  • Design
  • Author

• 'You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'No, sir.'One or the other. Not both.'Precisely, sir.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Women
  • Design

• The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Done
  • Age

• You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Good
  • Different
  • Design

• For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

  

  Charles J. Givens
  • Future
  • Past
  • Design

• I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Art

• If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Live
  • Design

• I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • Art
  • Space
  • Design

• So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Space
  • Design

• If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Up
  • Design

• The parliament intended to have hanged him, and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under one arm and Magna Carta under the other.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Bible

• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Woman
  • Results
  • Protect

• My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Work
  • She

• The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Design
  • Human Experience