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Creative Quotations #8

Posted 13 Jan 2011 - One gratefully received comment

Here’s another collection of quotes for your consideration. A lot of these quotes are about life in general but I think they apply to designers, creative thinkers and business people alike.

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs – Frank Chimero

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were big things. - Kurt Vonnegut

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. – Andy Warhol

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit . - Aristotle

Practice safe design: Use a concept. - Petrula Vrontikis

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb

I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success. - Michael Jordan

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich

Good design doesn’t cost, but it pays. - Richard H. Driehaus

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. - Marie Curie

What works good is better than what looks good. Because what works good lasts. - Ray Eames

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. - William James

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. - Chinese Proverb

Creative people should be sales people because design is a function of selling. - Duan Coetzee

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. - John F. Kennedy

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. - Vincent van Gogh

If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. - Anonymous

Design adds value faster than it adds cost. - Joel Spolsky

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. - Irish Proverb

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. - Michael Althsuler

It’s art if it can’t be explained.? It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.? It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation. - Wouter Stokkel

If you found a little glimpse of wisdom in any of these quotes, why not try a little experiment. Choose your favourite and put it on display where you work, this might mean a scribbled post-it, a printed sheet of A4 taped to the wall, whatever. As long as it’s somewhere where you can see it when you look around. You might just get a little kick out of it when you re-read it. It might also give you a little something to think about when you are stuck, think of it as a little oil to grease the cogs of thought in your head.

Let me know which quotes are your favourite and feel free post a few of your own.

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