Drawing Board Quotes

#1. Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

Carroll Smith

#2. If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

Usain Bolt

#3. How dare you little jabroni come onto The Rock shows Smackdown and run your mouth about how your the game, well The Rock says, if you are the game then you quite frankly you need to go back to the drawing board cause your game absolutely sucks!

Dwayne Johnson

#4. If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board.

Harley Earl

#5. The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan, it isn't just 3 hours in church, it isn't just the time you spend in Seminary - it's all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#6. I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

Bjarke Ingels

#7. Wipe your mouth,
there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips.

John Wagner

#8. What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

Clyde Tombaugh

#9. It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

William Shakespeare

#10. And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#11. There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

Adrian Tomine

#12. To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

John Stuart Mill

#13. If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.

Gisela Stuart

#14. Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#15. No sane creator, setting out from scratch to design a flat-fish, would have conceived on his drawing board the absurd distortion of the head needed to bring both eyes round to one side.

Richard Dawkins

#16. When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

Bob Monkhouse

#17. If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.

Douglas Brinkley

#18. Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought.

Carl R. Rogers

#20. Tom was not. "Seems to me," he said, "that she's at her drawing board evenings more than she's watching TV, and that you're the one who uses the sitting room for

Barbara Delinsky

#21. The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Dalai Lama XIV

#22. At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

Lionel Blue

#23. The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

Mary Robinson

#24. We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:

Peter Kreeft

#25. Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

Richard Koch

#26. Well, back to the old drawing board.

Peter Arno

#27. I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

David Lloyd

#28. In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Dan Brown

#29. Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Oscar Niemeyer

#30. It is morally acceptable in life for one to make mistakes; it only enables you to go back to your drawing board and review your steps".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#31. Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Henry Petroski

#32. That's right, Sha-kira?" I shook my head "No, sorry. My hips do lie." "Damn ok, back to the drawing board.

Amanda Kelly

#33. Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

Seth Godin

#34. I think if you are truly convinced of why you're writing something, if it's a strong enough dream of yours to share this vision and see it realized, you can almost always find a way motivate yourself, to keep going back to the drawing board and trying new things and approaches.

Diane Drake

#35. You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

James Dyson

#36. Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

Anita Brookner

#37. Well, it's easy cause you're so sexy. I don't do anything but put my hands on you and enjoy.

Anonymous

#38. I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

Quentin Blake

#39. Well, back to the drawing board.

Peter Arno

#40. Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

Maxine Kumin