William McDonough Quotes

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Military
  • Strength
  • Form

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Theory

• I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Myself
  • Care

• Dream and you shall become.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Dream
  • You
  • Become

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Experience
  • City
  • Model

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Brother
  • New
  • New York

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Peace
  • Issue
  • Palestine

• My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Father
  • Milk
  • Delivered

• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  

  Carolyn Cassady
  • Women
  • Book
  • Revelation

• The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Country
  • Truth

• I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Say

• I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • Baseball

• What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Social
  • Gang
  • Outcast

• Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

  

  William McDonough
  • Dream
  • Design
  • Humans