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Design
Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.” – David Craib
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Francoise Sagan: Writing
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” —Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004).
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Kristin Armstrong: Comfort in discomfort
“As runners we are pretty adept at changing our pace, alternating our route, and overcoming obstacles. We train ourselves, literally, to find some sort of comfort in the midst of our discomfort. Our training serves us well in every area of our lives.” —Kristin Armstrong, Welcome, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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Dating
“Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn’t embarrassed that he or she asked. ” —Marilyn vos Savant
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Worth a thousand
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. – Ben Shneiderman
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Ray Kurzwell: Exponentially speaking
“As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. ” Ray Kurzwell.
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Timothy Leary: Justice
“A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.” —Timothy Leary
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Dinah Mulock Craik: What to believe and what not to
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.” Dinah Mulock Craik
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Unknown: Blessed day
The day is already blessed, find peace within it. —Unknown
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James Callaghan: Decisions
“Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ” James Callaghan
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Carla O’Dell: Information
If you don’t give people information, they will find something to fill up the gap. —Carla O’Dell
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Dmitry Fadeyev: Good design
Good design at the front-end suggests that everything is in order at the back-end, whether or not that is the case. – Dmitry Fadeyev
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John Maxwell: Impossible is nothing
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.…
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Henry Miller: Example
Example moves the world more than doctrine. —Henry Miller
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Nils Fredrick Nielsen: Perfect match
They were the perfect match.He was kind and she was cruel. —-Nils Fredrick Nielsen
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Albert Camus: Actions and consequences
You have the freedom to choose your actions, but you don’t have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions. -Albert Camus
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Oscar Wilde: Young enough
“I am not young enough to know everything.” —Oscar Wilde. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/537195327
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Kesley Ruger: What to create?
In business we do a great job learning and teaching the tools for optimizing our results (how to build), but not a lot of time exploring the tools that will help us understand the experience we should be creating (what we should build). – Kelsey Ruger
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Don McLean: The day the nusic died
I went down to the sacred store Where I’d heard the music years before But the man there said the music wouldn’t play And in the streets the children screamed The lovers cried and the poets dreamed But not a word was spoken The church bells all were broken And the three men I admire…
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Gidsy.com: Descriptions
Descriptions are like skirts, they should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep things interesting. – Gidsy.com
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Albert Einstein: Environment
The environment is everything that isn’t me. —Albert Einstein
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Richard Whately: An hour in the morning
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. —Richard Whately
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David W Johnson: No speed limits
“There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.” David W. Johnson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Paths and no paths
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Miguel de Unamuno: Why men shout
Men shout to avoid listening to one another. -Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936).
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Guy Kawasaki: Agile design
“…the wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible) the market will pass you by.” —Guy Kawasaki.
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Marc Parent: Nine miles
Distance is one of the only things in life you truly earn. Anyone can give you nine pies, but no one can give you nine miles. Nine miles you have to take. Marc Parent, My Sweaty Little Secret, The Newbie Chronicles, Runner’s World
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David Frost: Success
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” —David Frost. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/111571356
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Mark Twain: Truth
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” —Mark Twain.
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David Eddings: Learning
“No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.” —David Eddings.
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Dalai Lama: Genuine love
“Genuine love should first be directed at oneself – if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?” —Dalai Lama.
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Oscar Wilde: Bad poetry
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. —Oscar Wilde
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Otto von Bismarck: In principle, in practice
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ” —Otto von Bismarck. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/107875418
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Albert Einstein: Religosity
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. —Albert Einstein. Embed from Getty Images
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Francois Mitterand: Reality
“A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. ” —Francois Mitterand. Embed from Getty Images
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Mark Twain: Bait
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.” —Mark Twain.
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Mark Twain: Supremest pleasure
“The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.” —Mark Twain.
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Unknown: Invent
Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you. —Unknown
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Oscar Wilde: Bigamy and monogamy
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. —Oscar Wilde
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Nikos Kazantzakis: Belief
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it. —Nikos Kazantzakis
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Willa Cather: Security
“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ” Willa Cather
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Brooks Adams: Influence of an author
“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ” ~Brooks Adams.
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Oscar Wilde: Faces
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. —Oscar Wilde
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Albert Einstein: Sorry lot indeed
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” —Albert Einstein. Embed from Getty Images
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Mark Twain: Illusions
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” —Mark Twain
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Norman Angell: Force of war
The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. ~ Norman Angell ~
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Bruce Lee: Mistakes
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” —Bruce Lee.
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Original
When you’re the original, you can, if you wish, stray from the script. Hell, it’s your life, it’s your story.
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Dean Acheson: One day at a time
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” —Dean Acheson.
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Peace
“Peace in the head, peace in the stomach. ” —Jean-Bertrand Aristide
