Think Quotes

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

~ Ted Lange

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

~ Steve Jobs

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

~ Jil Sander

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

~ Marc Newson

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.

~ George Lois

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

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

~ Giorgio Armani

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

~ Stefan Sagmeister

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

~ William Butler Yeats

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

~ Robert Rauschenberg

What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.

~ Philip Treacy

Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.

~ Leila Janah

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

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

~ Colleen Atwood

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

~ Craig Venter

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

~ Vivienne Westwood

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

~ Jonathan Ive

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.

~ Nick Harkaway

People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.

~ Kevin Systrom

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

~ Liz Phair

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

~ Carlos Ghosn

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

~ Mickey Drexler

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

~ Frank Gehry

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

~ Bobby Flay

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.

~ Colleen Atwood

I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

~ Malorie Blackman

Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

~ Edgardo Osorio

I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

~ Tommy Hilfiger

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.

~ Dave Morris

I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.

~ Seal

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

~ Donald Norman

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

~ Daniel Libeskind

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

~ Jesse James Garrett

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

~ Robin Day

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

~ Donald Wills Douglas

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

~ John Steinbeck

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger