Monday, April 19th 2010 9:14pm
"… Another thing they don’t teach you in design school is what you get paid for… Mostly, designers get paid to negotiate the difficult terrain of individual egos, expectations, tastes, and aspirations of various individuals in an organization or corporation, against business needs, and constraints of the marketplace… Getting a large, diverse group of people to agree on a single new methodology for all of their corporate communications means the designer has to be a strategist, psychiatrist, diplomat, showman, and even a Svengali. The complicated process is worth money.
That’s what clients pay for."
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Wednesday, February 17th 2010 10:27am
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”
—Film critic Roger Ebert on losing his ability to speak four years ago, tells Esquire Magazine he communicates through Post-it notes but there is “no need to pity” him.
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Thursday, January 28th 2010 2:13pm
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness…If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act."
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Friday, January 15th 2010 10:40am
Sunday, August 2nd 2009 11:56pm
"Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Thursday, July 16th 2009 10:05am
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."
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Thursday, June 18th 2009 8:08pm
"We’re supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture."
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Thursday, June 4th 2009 1:32pm
"All over the world, some of the most dynamic and innovative creative work is being done for retail concepts. The top talent wants to create retail concepts and spaces. Retail is the epicenter of design and experience."
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