All Quotes - Arranged by Author First Name
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein -
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein -
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
- Albert Einstein -
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.. his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein -
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein -
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein -
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
- Albert Einstein -
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell -
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Anne Dudley Bradstreet -
"Enjoy Life. There is plenty of time to be dead."
- Anon -
"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently."
- Anon -
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
- Anon -
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
- Anon -
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle -
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle -
"Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goals to reach."
- Benjamin Mays -
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan -
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate your mind on the present moment."
- Buddha -
"Design is an expression of the purpose, and it may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art; design depends largely on constraints and it is a method of action (there are always constraints and these usually include ethic)."
- Charles Eames -
"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little."
- Cheng Yen -
"It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
- Claude M. Bristol -
"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 -
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius -
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in you life."
- Confucius -
"My inspiration is ART. . . Because without ART we would just be stuck with reality."
- Daniel Robert Lynch -
"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
- Denis Waitley -
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
- Douglas Adams -
"If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design."
- Dr. Ralf Speth -
"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 -
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."
- Galileo Galilei -
"I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is."
- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf -
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw -
"Creativity can solve almost any problem - the creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
- George Lois -
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
- Hans Hofmann -
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
- Helen Keller -
"It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see."
- Henry David Theoreau -
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford -
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
- Immanuel Kant -
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change you will get results."
- Jack Dixon -
"Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture, and forget that merchandise must be sold."
- James Randolph Adams -
"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days it will be."
- Jeremy Schwartz -
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
- Joan Borysenko -
"Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it's invisible."
- John D. Berry -
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
- John Dewey -
"If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery."
- John Maeda -
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
- John Powell -
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
- John W. Gardner -
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
- Jorge Luis Borges -
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
- Joseph Chilton Pearce -
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
- Joseph Joubert -
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
- Josh Billings -
"The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas."
- Linus Pauling -
"Visual organization is the deliberate prioritization of meaning within a visual design. It's the process of applying the principles behind perception, how we make sense of what we see, to illuminate relationships between content and actions."
- Luke Wroblewski -
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain -
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
"I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable."
- Massimo Vignelli -
"The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design."
- Massimo Vignelli -
"The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire and persistence."
- Milton Glaser -
"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."
- Milton Glaser -
"There are three responses to a piece of design: yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for. "
- Milton Glaser -
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
- Nelson Mandela -
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso -
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
- Pablo Picasso -
"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that is why is so complicated."
- Paul Rand -
"It is no secret that the real world in which the designer functions is not the world of art, but the world of buying and selling."
- Paul Rand -
"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."
- Paulo Coehlo -
"Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure."
- Paulo Coelho -
"Wise man talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
- Plato -
"The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
- Raymond Charles Barker -
"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."
- Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr. -
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than your work."
- Rita Mae Brown -
"In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost -
"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
- Salvador Dali -
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams -
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
- Steve Jobs -
"It is really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people do not know what they want until you show it to them."
- Steve Jobs -
"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better."
- Steve Jobs -
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs -
"And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."
- Steve Jobs -
"Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
- Steve Jobs -
"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."
- Steve Jobs -
"I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
- Steve Jobs -
"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully."
- Steve Jobs -
"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
- Steve Jobs -
"To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that."
- Steve Jobs -
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
- Theodore Rubin -
"I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison -
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
- W.M. Lewis -
"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it."
- Walt Disney -
"It is kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney -
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill -