"A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together."

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Source : Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

John Maeda

#Thinking Quotes #Together Quotes #Planning Quotes

“In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.”
“It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.”
“I certainly wasn’t Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.”

Source : "There Aren’t Enough Women Cinematographers and That Needs to Change" by Elle Schneider, www.indiewire.com. October 30, 2014.
“I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.”
“If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn't it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.”
“Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.”
“The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.”
“I was a teenager when General Zia took power in the Pakistan; I was in my twenties when I went there during the late 1980s and I saw then not only the novel punishments that he was introducing - because they were novel, and this is again something that's very important to understand, it's only in the last thirty, forty years, since 1979 in fact, that these penalties have been revived anywhere in the world apart from Saudi Arabia.”

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