Design Quotes
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I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.
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We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design
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I'd love to design bridal dresses.
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With a wedding gown, I have to make sure that people fall in love with it and that the details are very specific and special. There has to be a big story behind it and a great deal of integrity when it comes to the design.
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With the Bond girls, they've always been these sexy but quite strong women, and that's a nice combination to design for.
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Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
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Good design is not an applied veneer.
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It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.
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When I got into high school, that's when I stated dabbling in fashion design. I got involved in the theater department's costume design and started to think that maybe I'd major in fashion design.
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Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.
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My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
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Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.
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I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
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Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...
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I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.
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"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.
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To be the Grand Marshal of the most recognized Halloween parade in the world is so much fun. People plan for months and months to design their costumes, and it is amazing. It is a true competition and amazing to watch everyone.
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My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
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Work for money, design for love.
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Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.
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There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.
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When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
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Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it's hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?
