Bob Gill Quotes

#1. Listen, you're a powerful woman and you're used to getting what you want out of life, and you didn't get what you wanted in your last few relationships and it's got you all jammed up. Your

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Be stimulated by rejection

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#3. We need practice solving problems.

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#4. Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

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#5. I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

Yash Chopra

#6. Forget all the rules you ever learned
about graphic design.

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#7. I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

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#8. How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

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#9. The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#10. The world turned, and new stories rose up, and the legends of the old days faltered a little, or turned themselves in their course to keep up with the lives of their people, and the lives of great-grandchildren of those they had first known.

Robin McKinley

#11. It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

Samuel West

#12. When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

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#13. No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible.
Sometimes it's even better.

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#14. I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside ... that's why I've never had a job.

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#15. I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

Olivia Thirlby

#16. The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

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#17. Don't get caught in the trap of always "Needing" something. Needing something always projects your mind into the future as if you have it and is the opposite of gratitude. Be content in the present moment.

Matthew Donnelly

#18. If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

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#19. Writers ... write to give reality to experience.

Archibald MacLeish

#20. It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

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#21. There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

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#22. Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

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#23. Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

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#24. now-and-then praying doesn't do that. It is the

Stormie O'martian

#25. It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

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#26. I'll go walking in circles
While doubting the very ground beneath me
Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything

David Sylvian