Design Quotes - Page 50

You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.

The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

Let'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.

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

My 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.

Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.