Top 50 Buxton Quotes

#1. A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #28730
#2. All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #31350
#3. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #55402
#4. My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #145867
#5. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #196609
#6. All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #220197
#7. To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #354094
#8. Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #399536
#9. The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #432596
#10. A successful career has been full of blunders.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #449904
#11. The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #473220
#12. One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Buxton Quotes #521954
#13. The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #546255
#14. It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway.

Felix Buxton

Buxton Quotes #607994
#15. One of my goals is to have NO wrestler go undefeated.

Jeff Buxton

Buxton Quotes #618629
#16. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #679416
#17. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #687437
#18. The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #700094
#19. The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #718640
#20. In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #747845
#21. Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #780105
#22. Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #819806
#23. You cannot win without sacrifice.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #831423
#24. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #922155
#25. The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1041729
#26. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable

Thomas Fowell Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1065865
#27. If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1167600
#28. In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1223866
#29. If I can see it, it's a failure

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1257849
#30. Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Buxton Quotes #1279840
#31. If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1332720
#32. Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1347291
#33. America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white.

Felix Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1400641
#34. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1401926
#35. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1450785
#36. A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals.

Bonnie Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1464105
#37. It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever.

Felix Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1535121
#38. Always be a beginner at something.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1538632
#39. I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1565536
#40. Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1569905
#41. The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1589868
#42. Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1655563
#43. You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1658442
#44. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Buxton Quotes #1749084
#45. Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1766520
#46. Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1772032
#47. In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

Charles Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1784148
#48. When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1799216
#49. The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

Bill Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1825429
#50. Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

Felix Buxton

Buxton Quotes #1838295

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