“Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.” WorldLooksAbleWorryDesignPlantDesignerDriversArchitectClientsFenceBuilderBulldozers Author:Bill Mollison
“I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.” HelpingAbleOpportunityResultsDesignPositionProjectsToolsCharityIncrediblesEnjoyedFundPhenomenalDo It Yourself Author:Tim Allen
“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.” NeedsGivingAbleSchoolAsksIndividualStrongParentDecisionTeacherDesignStudentsProgramPartnershipPermissionBureaucracyFlexibilityPublic SchoolCharterSchool Teachers Author:Gary Larson
“I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it.” PeopleIfsWantAbleWantedYoungDesignBrandsShirtsDesignerPensI Want YouT ShirtWallets Author:Nicola Formichetti
“I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.” PeopleAbleTurnsPrinciplesCenturyDesignTheoryRevolutionProudPeriodsComputerWorthySignificantDevelopingLooking BackInterfacesFootnotes Author:Jef Raskin
“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.” PeopleWayGivingAblePurposeOrderCultureUnderstandingGrowthAttitudeTroubleDesignPersonalityEgoGiving UpConsciousPlanningUrgesRootedUtilitarianInner Growth Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasAblePastBeliefUnitedSeaDesignRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingProgressive Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.” ThinkingWayPhilosophyAbleSimplePowerfulStyleDesignTasteApproachClothesUltimateSimplicitySophisticationLess Is More Author:G-Eazy
“Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.” AbleTalentDesignTrust Me Author:Liya Kebede
“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.” ThinkingMindI CanFactsRealityRunningAbleUsedLanguageDesignCollegeTestsEquipmentVirtual RealityLivestock Author:Temple Grandin
“I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.” WayAbleWantedDesignAestheticTranslate Author:Charlotte Ronson