A Quote by Robert L. Peters

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

Robert L. Peters

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Accident Antidote Application Design Happenstance Intent Opposite

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Robert L. Peters
Born: May 26, 1954

People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.

Atom Egoyan

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

T. S. Eliot

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

Joe Strummer

Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.

Rick Wilson

Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5. Good design is unobtrusive 6. Good design is honest 7. Good design is long-lasting 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail 9. Good design is environmentally friendly 10. Good design is as little design as possible

Dieter Rams

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Lillian Hellman

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.

Jennifer Morla

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

James Lipton

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Samuel Johnson

A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

Jim Rohn

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

David H. Murdock

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Bill Hybels

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

Phil Hine

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.