429 private quotes tagged design

“In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.”— Charles Stanley

“To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.”— Charles Eames

“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.”— Manolo Blahnik

“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”— John Adams

“McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.”— Dave Eggers

“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”— Freeman Dyson

“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.”— Lance Armstrong

“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.”— Stockwell Day

“Design is not for philosophy it's for life.”— Issey Miyake

“Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.”— Robert Collier

“Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.”— Clement Mok

“Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.”— Ellen DeGeneres

“Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.”— Joseph Kosinski

“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”— George Santayana

“I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.”— Brad Pitt

“I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.”— Kim Kardashian

“How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?”— Kinky Friedman

“Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.”— Freeman Thomas

“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.”— Tom Stoppard

“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”— David Hume

“The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.”— Kathy Ireland

“I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.”— Drew Barrymore

“When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.”— Vera Wang

“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.”— Gary Gygax

“For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.”— James Rouse