Axiomatic Design Quotes

#1. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

Terry Eagleton

#2. Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

Groucho Marx

#3. How do you 'clear' your thoughts? You have only other thoughts with which to do the job; 'thoughts', therefore, are both blockage and broom. I suppose what we mean is that we should stop reasoning and try to 'feel' - which presumes that what we 'feel' is more valuable than anything we think ...

Sebastian Faulks

#4. When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

Steven Pressfield

#5. When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.

Florence King

#7. In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [ ... ].

Tina Fey

#8. Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.

David Hewson

#9. More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

Roger Tory Peterson

#10. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad