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" When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities. "
Peter Zumthor
Place
History
Design
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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. "
Jim Henson
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" Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%! "
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" I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything. "
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" Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired. "
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" I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table. "
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" So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. "
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" When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry? "
Candice Olson
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" Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work. "
Antoine Predock
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" Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. "
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Think
Simple
" I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name. "
Peter Zumthor
Work
Good
Respect
" 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. "
Travis Scott
Criticism
People
Think
" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "
Peter Zumthor
Quality
Need
Good
" I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. "
Philip Johnson
I Wish
Me
Someone
" I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay. "
Jimmy Choo
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Like
Love
" Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. "
Henry Petroski
Ship
Design
Done
" I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more like home. Those spaces we see in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's going to lack that feeling of home. "
Joanna Gaines
Home
Beautiful
Freedom
" Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital. "
Michael Spence
Country
Research
Efficiency
" I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator. "
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Big
" I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. "
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" For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work. "
James Wan
Scary
Me
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" Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies. "
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" What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost. "
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" As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. "
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Choices
Respect
View
" It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it. "
Joy Mangano
Democracy
Want
Believe
" You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing. "
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You
Almost
Because
" I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake. "
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Thinking
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Brain
" If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist. "
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" Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. "
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" I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. "
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Up
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