Steve Krug Quotes
Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
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I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.
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The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.
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Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?
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The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
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I don't at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs.
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We overeat because there are signals and cues around us that tell us to eat. It’s simply not in our nature to pause after every bite and contemplate whether we’re full. As we eat, we unknowingly—mindlessly—look for signals or cues that we’ve had enough.
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Individualism is important - having a real voice, not just references. I have great respect for the young designers who want to go their own way and try to be a little entrepreneurial, like Thomas Tait today.
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But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.
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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'
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Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.
