Quotes About Scher

#1. My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.

Phil Daniels

#2. Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

Paula Scher

#3. You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you; you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.

Paula Scher

#4. Great design is serious, not solemn

Paula Scher

#5. It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

Paula Scher

#6. I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed in the pop female category.

Steve Carell

#7. Even if you're not with me I'm with you. Linkin Park

Anonymous

#8. Behavior isn't driven by permanent traits that apply across the board. Rather, someone could be honest at work, but deceptive with his spouse. People don't have character, but rather a multiplicity of tendencies activated by context.

Joshua V. Scher

#9. Words have meaning, type has spirit.

Paula Scher

#10. The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

Paula Scher

#11. I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.

Paula Scher

#12. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.

Paula Scher

#13. He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't.

He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.

So he wasn't going to now.

Luke Taylor

#14. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

Paula Scher

#15. Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

Paula Scher

#16. I just remember that everything looked the same-all style and no substance

Paula Scher

#17. All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.

Paula Scher

#18. I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

Paula Scher

#19. Then, frighteningly, he said, 'But as you are a man, how are you going to deliver your pregnancy? This is a big problem for you.

Amos Tutuola

#20. The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

Lucian Freud

#22. It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Paula Scher

#23. Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to.

Amy B. Scher

#24. When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

Arthur Lewis

#25. New Zealand looks like the future to me

Paula Scher

#26. The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Paula Scher

#27. Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?

Paula Scher

#28. The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

Paula Scher

#29. If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.

Phil Keoghan

#30. May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.

Brennan Manning

#31. If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that's success for me.

Paula Scher

#32. Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

Paula Scher

#33. Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

#34. Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?

Paula Scher

#35. Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew.

J.K. Rowling

#36. I'm not a playwright.

Bob Dylan

#37. I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.

Paula Scher

#39. Beige is the color of indecision.

Paula Scher

#40. Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

Paula Scher