Quotes About Milton Glaser

#1. Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

John Burroughs

#2. If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.

Milton Glaser

#3. The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

Milton Glaser

#4. We're always looking, but we never really see.

Milton Glaser

#5. We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

Milton Glaser

#6. You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.

Milton Glaser

#7. In fashion, it's always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.

Carine Roitfeld

#8. You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!

Kane

#9. I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

Milton Glaser

#10. Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

#11. Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Milton Glaser

#12. The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting yourself as we are all one on the spiritual level.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#13. You don't stay the hottest guy forever unless you're, um, Dionysus.

Josh Hartnett

#14. When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

Victoria Principal

#15. If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Milton Glaser

#16. Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Milton Glaser

#17. Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

Dave Davies

#18. Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

Milton Glaser

#19. We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Milton Glaser

#20. One individual can typically care for no more than 10 people. Creating a 1:10 people system from the beginning allows you to provide the depth of spiritual relationship and mentoring people need and desire, while also scaling for growth.

Bill Woolsey

#21. Color is so intuitive.

Milton Glaser

#22. You must embrace failure

Milton Glaser

#23. All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.

Milton Glaser

#24. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Robin Hobb

#25. I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

Milton Glaser

#26. As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

Joseph C. Wilson

#27. If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Eric Greitens

#28. I wasn't born a monster, though my choices certainly have made me one. But I can't stop myself. I can't. Causing pain to others when I'm suffering soothes me.

Mia Asher

#29. I believe that knowing when to leave one's employer is a critical success factor in building a career, assuming that the logic behind one's decision makes some sense.

Catherine Fredman

#30. To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Milton Glaser

#31. The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Milton Glaser

#32. The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

Milton Glaser

#33. If you're going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

Rob James-Collier

#34. In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Milton Glaser

#35. I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

Milton Glaser

#36. I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Milton Glaser