Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
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design

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Luck is the residue of design.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

The primary factor is proportions.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Good design is good business.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

I don't design down to a price.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.