Design Quotes
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I felt my design point of view was more welcomed in New York, that I could show my collections in the way I wanted to show them.
 Jenny Packham
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...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
 Spider Robinson
					 
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You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.
 William McDonough
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The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
 Will Self
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When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence not only physical conditions but also emotions. They can touch the nerves, the blood, the muscles, the eyes and the moods of people.
 Ettore Sottsass
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
 John Malkovich
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Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.
 Norio Ohga
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Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
 Ellen Lupton
					 
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Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.
 Bob Lutz
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Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!
 Alan Rufus
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You are what you are seen to be.
 Erik Spiekermann
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
 William Butler Yeats
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Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
 William Bernbach
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The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.
 C. S. Lewis
					 
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I don't see anything changing about our desire for quality and fuel efficiency and safety and smart design, no matter what the vehicle size.
 Alan Mulally
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There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
 Michael Hansmeyer
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Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
 Sonny John Moore
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From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
 Ernest Rutherford
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If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
 Saul Griffith
					 
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I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.
 Serena Williams
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London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
 Renzo Piano
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If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
 Ettore Sottsass
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On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
 Alastair Mackenzie