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
#2. All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
Charles Buxton
#3. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.
Bill Buxton
#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
#5. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Charles Buxton
#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
#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
#9. The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.
Bill Buxton
#11. The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
Charles Buxton
#13. The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.
Bill Buxton
#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
#15. One of my goals is to have NO wrestler go undefeated.
Jeff Buxton
#16. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.
Charles Buxton
#17. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
#18. The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Charles Buxton
#19. The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today
Bill Buxton
#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
#21. Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Charles Buxton
#22. Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
#24. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton
#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
#26. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable
Thomas Fowell Buxton
#27. If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.
Bill Buxton
#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
#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
#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
#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
#37. It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever.
Felix Buxton
#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
#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
#42. Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.
Bill Buxton
#43. You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Charles Buxton
#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
#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
#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
#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
#49. The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling
Bill Buxton
#50. Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.
Felix Buxton