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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
— Vin Diesel
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
— Jonathan Sacks
If faith is your motivation, share that.
— Tim Kaine
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
— W. H. Auden
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
— E. M. Forster
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
— Al Gore
Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'
— David A. Bednar
We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.
— Charles R. Swindoll
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
— Rafael Nadal
I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.
— Peyton Manning
For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.
— Kirk Cameron
The more frightening and sort of dark and oppressive a movie is, the more free you are to explore the supernatural and explore faith. The two just somehow go hand-in-hand really nicely.
— Scott Derrickson
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
— Barbara Bush
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.
— Norman Davies
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.
— Sam Harris
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.
— John Piper
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
— Gustave Flaubert
From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.
— Dan Gilbert
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
— Wentworth Miller
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
— James Russell Lowell
I have never known Frances to complain once of my Church responsibilities. I have been gone many days and many nights, and I have rarely been able to sit with her in the congregation. But there is no one like her - absolutely no one. She is in every way supportive and is a woman of quiet and profoundly powerful faith.
— Thomas S. Monson
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
— J. J. Abrams
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.
— Nikki Haley
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
— Saint Ignatius
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
— Rick Warren
Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.
— Rick Warren
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
— Julia Cameron
Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'
— Amy Adams
You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.
— Rick Santorum
God continues to work miracles in my life.
— Willie Aames
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
— Tariq Ramadan
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world.
— Adoniram Judson
Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
— Francis Collins
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
— John Tesh
My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.
— Erwin McManus
Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ - benefited spiritually in a wonderful way - and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor.
— Heber J. Grant
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
— Karen Armstrong
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. 
— Reinhold Niebuhr
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
— Pearl S. Buck
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
— Kris Carr
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
— Rowan Williams
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
— Abraham Verghese
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
— Benny Hinn
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.'
— Ravi Zacharias
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.
— Anne Graham Lotz
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
— Rose Kennedy
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
— Giacomo Casanova
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
— Robert Collier
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
— Mikhail Bakunin
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
— Norman Cousins
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
— Geoffrey Canada
I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
— Geoffrey Canada
Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.
— George Muller
The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.
— George Muller
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
— George Muller
Faith is in the eye of the beholder.
— Tilda Swinton
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
— Tim McGraw
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. 
— Emile Durkheim
Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.
— John Edwards
There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
— Athol Fugard
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
— Frances Wright
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
— Walter Lang
Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
— Brad Henry
Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
— Israel Horovitz
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
— Tony Benn
I came from a tradition where souls were a theological reality, not a faith reality. Souls were for saving, not for communing. Souls were for converting and, once they were converted, they were to be left alone. Souls were too mystical, too subjective, too ambiguous, too risky, too... well, you know - New Age-ish.
— Mike Yaconelli
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
— Rick Moody
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
— Aaron Schock
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
— Adam Clarke
I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.
— Mohammed Morsi
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
— Lynn Abbey
And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
— William Ames
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
— Francis Quarles
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.
— Miroslav Volf
For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.
— Miroslav Volf
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no.
— Russell Wilson
If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
— George Carey
I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.
— Roland Martin
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
— David Suchet
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
— Augustus Hare
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.
— N. T. Wright
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
— N. T. Wright
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
— Boris Kodjoe
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
— William Gurnall
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
— Vincent Nichols
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
— Patsy Cline
There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.
— Si Robertson
To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redouble their civic efforts. For without our active participation in politics, the government will continue to trample on our rights. The Constitution does not prevent people of faith from being active in politics.
— Edwin Meese
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
— Hattie McDaniel
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.
— Maurice Greene
I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.
— Sunny Deol
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
— Pat Buckley
I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.
— Bobby Bowden
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
— Martha Gellhorn
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
— Orson Pratt
Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.
— David Green
Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
— David Green
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
— Jim Wallis
I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
— Jim Wallis
Faith is never identical with piety.
— Karl Barth
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
— Ernest Holmes
To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.
— Allan McNish
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
— Dallas Willard
Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.
— Lee Strobel
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
— Garth Ennis
The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.
— Ronnie Musgrove
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
— John Woolman
To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.
— Julia Sweeney
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
— Walter Martin
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
— Ron Suskind
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
— Georges Bernanos
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
— Elizabeth Peyton
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
— Marie de France
'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.
— Robert Battle
I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.
— Yulia Tymoshenko
The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
— Claudio Hummes
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
— James Lee Burke
You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.
— Bill Bennett
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
— Wilma Mankiller
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
— Hal Borland
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
— Christopher Fry
I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.
— Francine Rivers
Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.
— Matthew Scully
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
— George Gurdjieff
We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last. 
— Charles Studd
I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.
— Horst Koehler
In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.
— Martin Chemnitz
Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.
— Anne F. Beiler
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
— Ted Lange
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
— Marcia Wallace
I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints.
— Norman Geisler
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
— Christopher Gadsden
The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
— Jane Grey
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
— Lillian Smith
I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.
— Donna Edwards
The need for some venture of faith still remains one must stake one's life upon something. 
— Henry Norris Russell
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
— John Hawley
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
— Vince Neil
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
— Mike McCurry
Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.
— Holly Marie Combs
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.
— Sydney Carter
In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.
— Jurgen Moltmann
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
— Emmanuel Teney
Faith is not contrary to reason.
— Sherwood Eddy
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
— D. Elton Trueblood
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
— Michael Malone
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. 
— Austin Farrer
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
— Coco Chanel
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
— Walt Disney
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
— Steve Jobs
A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.
— Christian Louboutin
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
— Steve Jobs
The details are not the details. They make the design.
— Charles Eames
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
— Jim Rohn
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
— Charles Eames
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.
— Paul Rand
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
— Henry Petroski
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.
— Henry Petroski
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
— Bjarke Ingels
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
— Norman Foster
Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.
— Jay Samit
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
— Ferdinand Porsche
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
— David Hockney
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
— Pierre Bonnard
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
— Norman Foster
I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.
— Tyler, The Creator
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
— Mitch Kapor
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
— Louis Kahn
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
— Jil Sander
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
— Steve Jobs
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
— John Adams
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
— Renzo Piano
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.
— Trent Reznor
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
— Gail Kelly
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
— Alec Issigonis
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
— Elon Musk
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
— Richard Dawkins
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
— Vera Wang
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
— Biz Stone
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
— Jeffrey Kluger
Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
— Yves Behar
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
— Herbert Simon
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
— Tom Ford
I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.
— David Carson
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
— Walter Gropius
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
— Charlie Byrd
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
— Andrew Wyeth
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
— Milton Glaser
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.
— Paul Rand
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
— George Santayana
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
— Herodotus
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
— Ivan Chermayeff
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
— Peter Zumthor
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.
— Richard Rogers
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
— B. F. Skinner
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
— Venus Williams
The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.
— Ralph Lauren
It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
— Donald Norman
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
— Orville Wright
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
— David Hume
When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.
— Miuccia Prada
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
— Diane von Furstenberg
Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.
— Kelly Wearstler
If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.
— Alan Cooper
Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.
— W. Bruce Cameron
Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.
— Dhani Harrison
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.
— Robert Winston
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
— John Dyer
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
— Charles Eames
The primary factor is proportions.
— Arne Jacobsen
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
It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.
— Stewart Butterfield
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
— Marc Newson
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
— Steve Jobs
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
— Tom Peters
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
— Frank Zappa
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
— Henri Matisse
Design is everything. Everything!
— Paul Rand
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
— Paul Rand
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.
— Paul Rand
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
— Marc Newson
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
— Rem Koolhaas
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
— Dieter Rams
I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.
— Martin Parr
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
— Michael Kors
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
— Camille Paglia
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.
— Alvar Aalto
We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.
— Jack Dangermond
Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
— Patrick Lencioni
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.
— Donald Norman
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
— Marc Newson
I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
— Kate Moss
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
— Betsey Johnson
Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
— Roberto Cavalli
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
— Jack Nicklaus
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
— John Malkovich
In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.
— St. Vincent
I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That's what I've always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.
— Hedi Slimane
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
— Zaha Hadid
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.
— Peter Zumthor
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
— Mark McKinnon
Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.
— Ross Lovegrove
People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.
— Christian Louboutin
Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
— Yves Behar
My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
— Yves Behar
The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
— Yves Behar
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
— Philip Johnson
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
— Raymond Loewy
As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.
— Jim Lee
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
— Richard Dawkins
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.
— David Carson
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
— Victor Papanek
I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.
— Tim Schafer
Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
— David H. Murdock
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
— Paul Sabatier
I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
— George Lois
I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.
— Asif Kapadia
Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand.
— Giuseppe Zanotti
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
— Isambard K. Brunel
With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.
— Issey Miyake
'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
— Jonathan Ive
I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.
— David Rockwell
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.
— Simon Schama