Design Quotes

• The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.

  

  Gareth Pugh
  • Details
  • Whole
  • Much

• The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Challenge
  • System
  • Market incentives

• Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Design
  • Marketing
  • Driven

• You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.

  

  Carol Ross Barney
  • Energy
  • Mean
  • Building

• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  

  Erik Adigard
  • Philosophy
  • Storytelling
  • Propaganda

• I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was horrible - couldn't draw, couldn't sketch, couldn't do anything. I remember at one point I came to terms with the fact that I had to work my ass off to do well and that's exactly what I did. I drew and drew and drew, and it worked - I ended up getting the award for best artist and went on to apply to design school because I loved it so much. I think it really speaks to the idea that you can in fact excel at whatever you put your mind and your heart to.

  

  Njena Surae Jarvis
  • Mind
  • School
  • Heart

• All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Vision
  • Training
  • Influence

• I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Design

• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Design
  • Works

• The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

  

  Bob Barton
  • Power
  • Design
  • Principal

• I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is – you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Light
  • Movement

• Design your life.

  

  Amy Chan
  • Life
  • Design

• I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "That's nice dear". And then she would say: "Did you write it or did you do the drawing?" or "Did you take the pictures?" I'd always answer "no", then I realized the problem. My answer was then, "I made this happen". It's called design.

  

  Brian Webb
  • Mother
  • Design
  • Jobs

• Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

  

  Patrick Cox
  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Shoe

• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

  

  Eliel Saarinen
  • Design
  • Context
  • Considering

• Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

  

  Caterina Fake
  • Today
  • Internet
  • Succeed

• I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Together
  • Stories
  • Exciting

• You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Character
  • Story
  • Audience

• My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Taken
  • Design

• To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

  

  Emil Ruder
  • Control
  • Accident
  • DIsoder

• The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Success
  • Environment
  • Learned

• Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

  

  Bob Gill
  • Design
  • Statement

• The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself - not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Book
  • Intelligent
  • Belief

• Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Design
  • Acting
  • Driven

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