Top 100 Design Your Quotes
#1. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.
Dale Ludwig
#3. Its best to design your own life than living the default one.
Upasana Banerjee
#4. You have a choice: design your life or let it design you!
Kyra Bobinet
#5. The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#6. Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
Caldwell Esselstyn
#7. Design your site so it looks professional
B. J. Fogg
#8. Remember, no one can design your life, only you can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#9. I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.
Renzo Piano
#10. Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.
Janet Macunovich
#11. Most come up with New Year Resolutions...
Others are busy making Excuses...
A few are following through with Execution...
Design your New Year Intentionally.
Farshad Asl
#12. It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.
Germaine Greer
#13. Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.
Don Tapscott
#14. If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
Guido Van Rossum
#15. You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.
Brian Tracy
#17. This strange new test called PISA, which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead of a typical test question, which might ask which combination of coins you needed to buy something, PISA asked you to design your own coins, right there in the test booklet.
Amanda Ripley
#18. If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planed for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
#19. God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. Design your own universe, make your own stars, write your own stories, and create your own destiny.
Karina Halle
#21. Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?
Prince Philip
#22. Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.
Darren Johnson
#23. Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
B. J. Fogg
#25. When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.
Derek Sivers
#26. People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#27. Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
Drew Carey
#28. Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
Chip Kidd
#29. Find a bigger enemy than just a rival brand. It can be bad design. It can be time. It can be pollution. It can be ugliness. It can be bad service. It can be landfill. It can be complexity. But pick your enemy well. It will drive you forward.
David Hieatt
#30. Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.
Chris Murray
#31. Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.
Mike Krieger
#32. What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.
Kellan Lutz
#33. Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn't address the converse - things systems should not do. They should not crash, hang, lose data, violate privacy, lose money, destroy your company, or kill your customers.
Michael T. Nygard
#34. Labour at your work until people cannot imagine what you have designed existing any other way.
Alan Moore
#35. I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism .
William E. Gladstone
#36. If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
Ettore Sottsass
#37. Sarasa, even if you feel that destiny is toying with you, destiny is something you design with your own hands.
Yumi Tamura
#38. Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D.H. Lawrence
#39. Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.
Mollie Marti
#40. I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.
Zedd
#41. Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.
Donald O. Clifton
#42. No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
Alan Cooper
#43. If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.
Stefan Sagmeister
#44. Responsive Web Design always plays important role whenever going to promote your website.
Josh Wilson
#45. When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it
create it! The key is to design a compelling destination, while enjoying the journey!
Laura Whitworth
#46. What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
Andy Stanley
#47. Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.
Bob Gill
#49. Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.
Rands
#50. There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.
Shirin Ebadi
#51. Design with skepticism, and you will achieve resilience. Ask, "What can system X do to hurt me?" and then design a way to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge whatever wrench your supposed ally throws.
Michael T. Nygard
#52. What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
Rian Hughes
#53. User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.
Donald Norman
#55. Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. I think getting something together to showcase your voice is important. You can also watch cartoons and play games and just kinda listen, and try to see how the design of the character matches to the voice.
Ashly Burch
#57. If you don't consciously design and choose your affirmations you are susceptible to repeating and reliving the fears, insecurities, and limitations of your past.
Hal Elrod
#58. Content is what powers your website, not the design or color of your fonts.
Matthew Capala
#59. I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.
Sean Bean
#60. A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.
Jakob Nielsen
#61. Ladies, most of you have no idea how beautiful you are. Don't let mean words from an insecure soul blind you from the truth of your beauty. You are beautiful by design ... just the way you are.
Steve Maraboli
#62. Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.
W. Heath Robinson
#63. When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.
Michael Hirst
#64. The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
Kent Beck
#65. Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#66. Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!
Steve Maraboli
#67. Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.
Charlotte Moss
#68. User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.
Jesse James Garrett
#69. Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.
Jesse James Garrett
#70. Don't just buy a new video game, make one.
Don't just download the latest app, help design it.
Don't just play on your phone, program it.
Barack Obama
#71. Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.
Frederick The Great
#72. Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.
Jeremy Keith
#73. Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it ... cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.
Daniel H. Wilson
#74. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?
Laura Busche
#75. It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
Ellen Lupton
#76. Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.
Linus Torvalds
#77. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.
Jim Rohn
#78. Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms
-not one that others, or the environment have
scripted for you.
Tony Robbins
#79. Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.
Marc Jacobs
#80. Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.
Brian Tracy
#81. You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
Wim Crouwel
#82. Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
Christopher Alexander
#83. Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.
Simon Campbell
#84. Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.
Jack Canfield
#85. You are very precious, each of you, regardless of your circumstances. You occupy a high and sacred place in the eternal plan of God, our Father in Heaven. You are His daughters, precious to Him, loved by Him, and very important to Him. His grand design cannot succeed without you.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#86. What point in having the freedom to enter into promises of your own choosing, to forge bonds of your own design, if your only aim is to shatter them?
Ian Tregillis
#87. The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
Robin S. Sharma
#88. Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.
Blake Lively
#89. Good designers can take the complex and make it profoundly simple. Great designers will also stir your soul and bewitch you with the beauty of their design - Quote by Aziz Musa (Quote found in book by Jock Busuttil)
Jock Busuttil
#90. An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.
Glenn Cunningham
#91. It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.
Thomm Quackenbush
#92. I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around.
Charlie Puth
#93. The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
John F. Carlsons
#95. Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.
Mollie Marti
#96. Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are inside before you spring something unusual on them.
James Lileks
#97. It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
Candice Olson
#98. It just happened."
Stryder narrowed his eyes. "Nay, Simon. Foul weather just happens. Disaster just happens." He glared meaningfully. "/Death/ just happens. But people do not get betrothed without design. You will get me out of this, or so help me I will have your head and your bullocks.
Kinley MacGregor
#99. If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.
Dave Thomas
#100. Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.
Diane Wilson
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