Good Quotes

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

~ Al Franken

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

~ Andrea Bocelli

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

~ Al Gore

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

~ Adam Clarke

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

~ Emanuel Swedenborg

For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.

~ Miroslav Volf

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.

~ Allan Mcnish

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

~ David Hockney

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

~ Richard Dawkins

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

~ Paul Rand

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

~ Raymond Loewy

I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

~ David Rockwell

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

~ Sophia Amoruso

Accessible design is good design.

~ Steve Ballmer

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

~ Paul Rand

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

~ Henry Petroski

Good design should be honest.

~ Ferdinand Porsche

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

~ Frank Gehry

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

~ Nate Berkus

My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

~ Fernando Botero

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

~ Cameron Sinclair

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

~ Freeman Dyson

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

~ Richard Rogers

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

~ Michael Graves

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

~ Lena Headey

I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

~ Vivienne Westwood

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

~ Paloma Faith

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

~ Jonathan Ive

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

~ Jonathan Ive

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

~ Linus Torvalds

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

~ Jamie Dimon

The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

~ Alber Elbaz

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

~ Chad Hurley

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

~ Alexander Mcqueen

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

~ Susanne Bier

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

~ Anurag Kashyap