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" Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment. "

Patrick Lencioni

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" I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority. "

" One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work. "

" Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever. "

" I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. "

" My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level. "

" It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage. "

" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "

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" At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. "

" Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design. "

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" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "

" So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design. "

" I don't design clothes, I design dreams. "

" Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. "

" Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. "

" I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. "

" You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' "

" Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them. "

" In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself. "

" Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator. "

" I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. "

" Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design. "

" God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves. "

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" Gucci has always represented great design and contemporary lifestyle. "

" After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them. "

" We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop. "

" Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection. "

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" I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism. "

" Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships. "

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