Niels Diffrient Quotes

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

Niels Diffrient

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• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Things

• I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Career
  • Politics

• In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind. We let the mind follow its natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Meditation

• Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • History
  • Growing

• Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.

  

  David Hewson
  • May
  • Light
  • Picture

• I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

  

  Pitbull
  • Country

• Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the average American family of four will receive a $1,182 tax cut. Imagine what you could do with $1,182 more in your pocket!

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Family
  • American

• The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Important
  • School
  • Achievement

• My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • People
  • Bad
  • Culture

• I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Money

• The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

  

  Bill Le
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • Mother

• I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Work
  • America

• Business is other people's money.

  

  Vicomte Delaunay
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Simple

• I've been parading around, leading people, being loud, since forever.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • People
  • Forever

• Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

  

  Confucius
  • Worry
  • Knowing
  • Seek

• Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heart
  • Rule
  • Aristocrat

• We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did the election ads is, I thought I could learn something. Like, what the hell is going on? I think anybody - particularly a person of leftist persuasion such as myself - who stops and thinks even for a moment, realizes that something strange is going on and we don't quite get it.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Learn
  • Imagine
  • Election

• There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Positive
  • Inside

• When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

  

  Niels Diffrient
  • Design
  • Imagine
  • Forms