“I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsUseHomeJobsHateTermNiceDesignCallingI Hate Author:Paula Scher
“I don't want people to think about my age. Notbecause I don't want them to know my age, I just don't want them to think about it, I don't want itto be a factor.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantAgeFactors Author:Paula Scher
“You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.” IfsThinkingSometimesCan DoDifferencesDogOrdinaryHotYou Can Do ItSpectacularHot Dog Author:Paula Scher
“Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.” ThinkingArtPurposeDifferencesDesignFunction Author:Paula Scher
“I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.” ThinkingArtMovingDesignDegreesGenerousGreat ArtHumanistic Author:Paula Scher
“I think Apple is a wonderful example of spectacular marketing and I love having my iPod. There are the naysayers who say that "nyah, nyah, it breaks" and I think "well, I don't like what Microsoft made..."” ThinkingWellsMadeBreakWonderfulExampleMarketingApplesSpectacularMicrosoftIpodsNaysayers Author:Paula Scher
“What happens is people - especially, I think, audiences in the United States - people confront new things a little bit afraid. It's like when you're a kid and your mother puts something on your plate you never ate before. I think that American audiences are very much like that, and when they can accept something new they can accept the next new thing, it's incredible. And what happens is that their expectation of what things should be is elevated, and that's really terrific for us.” PeopleThinkingShouldLittlesStatesHappensKidsMotherNextBitsUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesAudienceLittle BitExpectationsIncrediblesSomething NewNew ThingsPlatesTerrific Author:Paula Scher
“I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us.” PeopleThinkingAbilityAcceptingGrowingNew Things Author:Paula Scher
“For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayHappensCertainBornDrivenInventionArtisticErasGet BetterInternalsWithin YouMistrustIndividualistic Author:Paula Scher
“I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.” ThinkingTryingHappensCreativeAssumingNotionBe Creative Author:Paula Scher
“Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.” ThinkingWantPastFiveForty Author:Paula Scher
“It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.” ThinkingWantShouldHomeStuffWeekendGoing To Work Author:Paula Scher
