Top 40 Albert Hadley Quotes

#1. The designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.

Albert Hadley

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#2. Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

Albert Hadley

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#3. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. (1 Cor. 14:20)

Matt Chandler

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#4. A lot of people worry about
the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
I feel it's more a matter
of people treating the things that surround them
with respect.

Albert Hadley

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#5. Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.

Norm Coleman

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#6. A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.

Albert Hadley

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#7. The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank.

Albert Hadley

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#8. Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality

Albert Hadley

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#9. I'm thinking it would be wonderful if I could follow you into that world where you're going." "And leave this world behind?" "That's right," she said. "It's a boring old world anyway. I'm sure it'd be much more fun living in your consciousness.

Haruki Murakami

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#10. Design is coming to grips with one's real lifestyle, one's real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one's wellbeing.

Albert Hadley

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#11. An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Albert Hadley

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#12. Otis," I said.

"Shhh," he said. "I'm incognito. Call me...Otis."

"I'm not sure that's how incognito works, but okay."

Otis, aka Otis climbed into the chair I'd reserved for Sam.

Rick Riordan

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#13. Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.

Albert Hadley

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#14. and the idea of nothingness - the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling - has, in my dear master's work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.

Alvaro De Campos

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#15. I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

Albert Hadley

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#16. Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.

Albert Hadley

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#17. Ignorance is a blessing as much as it is a curse. You can't crave what you don't know exists. The

Kandi Steiner

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#18. You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.

Albert Hadley

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#19. I'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

Matt Damon

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#20. Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

Albert Hadley

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#21. Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment ...

Albert Hadley

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#22. The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.

Albert Hadley

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#23. The careers that I admire and actually try to emulate are those of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Those women, to me, make amazing choices. They're sexy, beautiful women, but that doesn't dictate their choices.

Eva Mendes

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#24. First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).

Paul Samuelson

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#25. Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

Albert Hadley

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#26. Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

Albert Hadley

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#27. After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

Albert Hadley

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#28. If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

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#29. Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

Albert Hadley

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#30. Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Dave Hickey

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#31. A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

Albert Hadley

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#32. Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

Albert Hadley

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#33. Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Coco Chanel

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#34. I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

Albert Hadley

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#35. Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

Albert Hadley

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#36. Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

Albert Hadley

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#37. So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.

Albert Hadley

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#38. The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

Patricia Highsmith

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#39. Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

Albert Hadley

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#40. Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.

Albert Hadley

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