Design Quotes
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With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.
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I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
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The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
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There is no design involved. It would look tawdry down the wrong end of a beach in Torremolinos. This isn't a case of just not wanting it in my backyard. This area is historically significant with listed buildings and it's next to the Tower of London, which is a world heritage site.
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I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and gave it a bit of technicolour.
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The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
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The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize that you can abandon divine creation of species without abandoning the argument from design.
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Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
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I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.
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Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.
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Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.
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How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.
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There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.
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There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.
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The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
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Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
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Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here.
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I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'
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The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.
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I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
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Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
