Design Quotes
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I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.
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I originally thought I would be going into wedding dresses. I wanted to create gowns, especially for weddings. I liked the idea of dealing with just one color, and within that, you could design whatever you want.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.
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I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
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We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: … I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
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I wanted to design clothes to help build confidence.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
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The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
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I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
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I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.
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Many of my clients have become close friends, and that informs the clothing I design for them. Julianna Margulies was introduced to me by her publicist many years ago, and we've been good friends ever since.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
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At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
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For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
