"Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it."

-- Paola Antonelli

#Successful Quotes #People Quotes #Design Quotes

“Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.”
“I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.”
“My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.”
“Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.”
“No other man will have you”
“Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some peopleâ€™s flames are so still they donâ€™t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you canâ€™t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.”
“The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.”
“You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We canâ€™t expect the world to be better than we make it.”

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