Top 1200 Inspiring Design Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

She is absolutely inspiring. Malala is a vindication of our struggle.

I've worked with some of the most inspiring and genuinely nice people.

The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over. In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to design for more than elegance.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

The last 10% of game design is really what separates the good games from the great games. It's what I call the clean-up phase of game design. Here's where you make sure all the elements look great. The game should look good, feel good, sound good, play good.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.

The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent to stop government action. The Constitution limited government. And that's why people like Obama and Democrats call it a charter of negative liberties because it limits government. It's an anti-government, pro-citizen document. And the founders wanted to make it hard.

Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring.

These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

If I design another line, I will definitely design pieces that suit both pregnant and non-pregnant women. Being pregnant is one of the most amazing things, but it is a big change in a woman's life and body, and I think it is important she feels amazing all along her term. And being able to wear beautiful lingerie will definitely help.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

I find that complete trust and subsequent courage galvanizing and inspiring.

When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.

I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

It's one of the most beautiful, inspiring places I've ever been to.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

By building respect and inspiring love business can move the world.

When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.

Jack Geisinger. He passed, but we were friends up until the end. We took a dress design and apparel class, and I realized that I didn't like it, mostly because I couldn't sew very well. I then change over to textile design, where I could draw and paint. It was perfect for me. I got to the height of my career as a textile designer. I was working with people like Donna Karan, Jean Muir, and Scott Barrie.

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.

I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product.