Virgil Abloh Quotes

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

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• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Write
  • Most

• The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Age
  • Small
  • Team

• Have common sense and stick to the point.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Sense
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Money
  • Food
  • Struggle

• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Lost

• From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Words

• All action is vicarious faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Faith
  • Action

• There's simply no excuse not do a game about 'Blair Witch,' which has everything from the time-dimensional shifting to being chased through the woods. Kind of like the VR website experience where the woods shift whenever you turn.

  

  James Allen McCune
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Game

• We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • California
  • River

• When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!

  

  Lela Loren
  • Time

• This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Dream
  • Beginning
  • Travel

• There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Reading

• The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Real
  • Study

• I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done...I only realized the normity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my accomplishment.

  

  Al Geiberger
  • Accomplishment
  • Realized
  • Ovation

• And all for love, and nothing for reward.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Nothing

• I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Different

• My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

  

  Virgil Abloh
  • Design
  • Skills
  • Tool