"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

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"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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Design, Art, Blood, Eyes

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Design, Work, Calling, Purpose

"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."

Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist

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"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"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, American Historian

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"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

Calvin Klein, American Designer

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

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"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."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

"Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."

"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."

"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

"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."

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"We pardon to the extent that we love."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."