Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. — Omar N. Bradley
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. — William Morris
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Interior Design Inspiration Quotes
When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life. — Gustav Stickley
I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that. — Maria Sharapova
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. — John Ruskin
Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.
I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. — Chris Kirkpatrick
When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward. — Marc Forster
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done. — Van Day Truex
Fashion Design Inspiration Quotes
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. — Yves Saint Laurent
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit. — Michael Kors
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld
When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.' — Wendy Williams
Beautiful Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! — Paula White
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck
If you can design one thing, you can design everything. — Massimo Vignelli
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because the idea wasn't theirs.
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent. — Saul Bass
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it? — Wolfgang Weingart
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. — Carlos Santana
There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material. — Salvatore Ferragamo
Graphic Design Inspiration Quotes
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read. — Zuzana Licko
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. — Wim Crouwel
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister
Good design is as little design as possible.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. — Chip Kidd
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients. — Michael Bierut
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
Design is where science and art break even.
They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. — Gerald Massey
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. — Raymond Loewy
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures. — Jeffrey Veen
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
Finding Inspiration Quotes
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. — Nikola Tesla
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security. — Kathryn Kuhlman
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything. — Bill Russell
Design is thinking made visual.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? — Marcus Aurelius
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs
Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork. — Yohji Yamamoto
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. — Edward Elgar
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. — Jim Rohn
Looking For Inspiration Quotes
We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Sayings
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. — Eckhart Tolle
When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop. — Yasmin Mogahed
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. — Yasmin Mogahed
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Business Inspiration Quotes
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
Inspiration And Innovation Quotes
I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire. — ASAP Rocky
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat — Steve Jobs
Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation. — Hugh Herr
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. — Bill Bowerman
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. — Steve Jobs
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. — William L. McKnight
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. — Steve Jobs
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
Creativity can solve almost any problem. — George Lois
Love And Inspiration Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. — Dalai Lama
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. — Clare of Assisi
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald
Fashion Inspirational Quotes
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn
I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. — Alexander McQueen
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. — Jack Hyles
People will stare. Make it worth their while. — Harry Winston
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. — Albert Einstein
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am. — George A. Sheehan
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel
Inspire Creativity Quotes
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. — Benjamin Bloom
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams. — Roger Vivier
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. — Louis Kahn
Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize. — Antonin Scalia
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. — Paula Scher
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate — William Wilberforce
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. — Adrian Frutiger
A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion. — Joseph Pilates
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. — Oprah Winfrey
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them. — Adrian Frutiger
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli
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