Design - Quotes & Sayings
Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.
Gordon B. HinckleyIn just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Orville WrightI don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.
Tim CookI can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
Alexander McQueenWe had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.
Satya NadellaAs a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.
Guillermo del ToroEvery project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands.
Guillermo del ToroI would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision.
Guillermo del ToroI never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.
Diane von FurstenbergA challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
Diane von FurstenbergThe way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless.
Diane von FurstenbergMy favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.
Diane von FurstenbergI don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
Annie LeibovitzI design therefore I become.
Jason SilvaYou can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
Jamie DimonDelay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de CervantesIt would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
Steve WozniakEighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
Barbra StreisandGod didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.
Peter FalkI love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Vera WangAll those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
Vera WangI like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
Vera WangLet's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Vera WangMy closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
Vera WangPeople might not know, but F1 drivers have new helmets made throughout the season. Usually, the design is the same, but I like to do something special for Monaco.
Lewis HamiltonDesign is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves BeharThe best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
Yves BeharI am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
Yves BeharI can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
Rachel RoyThe primary factor is proportions.
Arne JacobsenA rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
Kent BeckI always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.
Neil MarshallVolvo has one weakness, and that is in the interior design. They have not adapted to the Chinese people's perception of luxury when it comes to the interior design, and this has to be addressed.
Li ShufuI've always loved interior design.
Genie FrancisGood design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
Raymond LoewyThe sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
Rachel Lambert MellonI have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.
Giambattista ValliThrough our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.
Cynthia BreazealI had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
Charlotte RonsonA person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
Charlie ByrdThere are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
Tony HoareWe design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.
Anne-Marie WillisThe urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry BertoiaThere are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.
Tom FordThe dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.
Tom FordAs a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.
Tom FordThe way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.
George LucasMartha 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 IrelandWe need to be both conscious and competent to design products that emulate nature's life cycles, making sure that they endure and are either recycled or absorbed.
Guilherme LealI'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
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