- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Design Quotes
On design as history, craft, and a single creative umbrella.
A few quotes here take a long historical view, tracing design back to early stone tools and ancient flutes long before the word itself existed. For more, see Creativity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accessories design is one of the most creative categories. It's like cooking, like decorating, because it involves the person. They have to choose, and they have to figure out how to wear it and to mix it based on their style.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first Mac in 1984. I've got an Airbook, iPad, iPhone, the lot. I love that blend of technology, creativity, and design.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.
- Bail
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow.
- Machine
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.
- Art Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020