Designed Quotes

• We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sense
  • Humour
  • Specially

• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

  

  Neil Shubin
  • History
  • Products
  • Designed

• I'm not designed to interact with society.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Society
  • Designed
  • Interact

• The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Prophecy
  • Prophets

• An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting area, and focuses it on a receiver. An antenna is normally designed to maximize its response in the direction in which it is pointed and minimize its response in other directions.

  

  Robert Woodrow Wilson
  • Direction
  • Directions
  • Area

• I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Teach
  • Sermon
  • Preached

• Dance classes are not designed to be workouts - they're designed to teach skill.

  

  Anna Kaiser
  • Dance
  • Teach
  • Skill

• Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Humans
  • Order
  • Plant

• The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Course
  • Designed
  • USGA

• Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

  

  Francis Crick
  • Constantly
  • Evolved
  • Biologists

• Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Cheer

• People have asked why the new currency introduced was different in size and thickness from the old. This is because the new currency has been designed to make it hard to counterfeit. When you are going to make a change of this magnitude, you need to get the best standards in place.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • New
  • Currency
  • To Counterfeit

• Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.

  

  Alan Finger
  • Car
  • Yoga
  • Designed

• The alt right is a disinfo group designed to discredit Trump and to frustrate his agenda, which is why David Duke and all those guys go around saying they're pro Trump.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Around
  • Agenda
  • David

• To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Play
  • Working
  • Escape

• Some things weren't designed to understand.

  

  Mel C Spice Girls
  • Things
  • Understand
  • Designed

• How you educate the people around you, what steps you take toward making it better, what sacrifices you make. The equation of life is simple: There's no gain without pain. For whatever reason, that's the way this world was designed in every facet. It's the same thing, there has to be a sacrifice.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Pain
  • Educate
  • Sacrifices

• I have a Gibson Thinline that I designed the body shape of, which I used a lot on the 'Fanatic' album that I'm going to shake out.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Designed
  • Body shape
  • Gibson Thinline

• I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.

  

  Michael Graves
  • Morning
  • Always
  • Happened

• We were never designed to receive glory. We were designed to give glory.

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • Never
  • Glory
  • Designed

• I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Anything
  • Can Do
  • Designed

• In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

  

  Antonio Gates
  • School
  • Designed
  • Schemes

• We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Need
  • Because
  • Build

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