Niels Diffrient Quotes

#1. understanding a question is half an answer

Socrates

#2. Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

Niels Diffrient

#3. So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

Leo Buscaglia

#5. Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

Niels Diffrient

#6. Position, - for the Negro to realize more deeply than he does at present the need of uplifting the masses of his people, for the white people to realize more vividly than they have yet done the deadening and disastrous effect of a color-prejudice that classes Phillis Wheatley

W.E.B. Du Bois

#7. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

William T. Sherman

#8. The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

Niels Diffrient

#9. When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

Niels Diffrient

#10. What if you wake up at sixty and realize that you forgot to wake up, and you never became the person you were born to be, and now your hair is falling out?

Anne Lamott

#11. My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

Niels Diffrient

#12. What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

Gregory Crewdson

#13. My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Donald Trump

#14. It looks like a galosh with electronics in it.

Niels Diffrient

#15. Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence, Energy merging with mind, to create a new beginning. Creativity and meditation are similar, as both are expressions of something beyond mind.

Gian Kumar

#16. The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them,

Niels Diffrient

#17. But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

Xenophanes

#18. The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Joyce Maynard

#19. The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, that's quite charming, but in a real economy, it's much more problematic.

Nick Hanauer

#20. I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen ... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

Darren Criss

#21. The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Harvey MacKay