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What is your favorite quote?
almost 10 years ago from Anders Therkildsen
Hey guys,
As always I'm off topic - but I would love to know, what your favorite quote is?
And have a nice weekend!
34 comments
Alexander Haniotis, almost 10 years ago A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
Tommy Sadler, almost 10 years ago
I have to go with the classic quote from my idol Steve Jobs, "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." Love that one.
Giulio Michelon, almost 10 years ago
Design is as little design as possible. - Dieter Rams
Ian Williams, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
Find what you love and let it kill you.
“My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover." -Charles Bukowski
Matt Soria, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
I love that. I have a similar one: "One reason for living is finding a reason to die." -Unknown
That's a great one - much simpler.
Tycho Klein Severt, almost 10 years ago
Not a very common one.
"Fashions fade, style is eternal" - Yves Saint Laurent
Angad Kingra, almost 10 years ago
One of the recent ones I've loved:
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.” ? Hugh MacLeod
Murat Mutlu, almost 10 years ago
Brilliant
Jian Wei Liau, almost 10 years ago
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” - Marshall McLuhan
I really like this
John Emerson, almost 10 years ago
This is a take on Churchill addressing the House of Commons in October 1943: "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."
Pedro Pinto, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
This is one of my favorites: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
In case someone is interested, I use this website to find and keep quotes that I love: http://www.changemakrs.com
Garth Braithwaite, almost 10 years ago
I love lamp.
Chris Rodemeyer, almost 10 years ago
"Make design your life… and life, your design." —Charles Eames
A couple years back, we made small side project from client work site to store all these awesome quotes that were going around. Never got much traction or spent much time developing, but it's still there. Some good gems on there. http://www.quolection.com
Axel Valdez, almost 10 years ago
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid — Michel Gondry
Maurice Cherry, almost 10 years ago
Fortune favors the bold. - Terence
Josh Green, almost 10 years ago
"I do not like the cone of shame" Doge
Palash Mukhopadhyay, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. — Hunter S. Thompson
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare
Andreas Druschel, almost 10 years ago
"a logo is a good one if you can draw it in the sand with your big toe" - Kurt Weidemann
Michael Dorian Bach, almost 10 years ago "Me and Raaaaaaaandy live by 3 rules - 1. THEY NOT READY. 2. MOTHAFUCKAS NEED TO KNOW and 3. GET YO SHIT." - DJ Old Youngin
Jason Rodriguez, almost 10 years ago
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
Blake Hawksworth, almost 10 years ago
Don't Compromise - Steve Jobs
Dmitri Litvinov, almost 10 years ago
"If you try you might, if you don't you won't"
That's been my favorite quote since I was 16.
Suleiman Leadbitter, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago ) "Never underestimate the stupidity of people" - Me
Pedro Ivo Hudson, almost 10 years ago
"Embrace the failure." - Milton Glaser
Lucas Almeida, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
"Calm seas never made good sailors". I have a tattoo with that.
Aaron Fisher, almost 10 years ago
"If you idiot proof something, the world just invents a bigger idiot." - Someone on Reddit
Nicholas Hendrickx, almost 10 years ago
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” - Salvador Dali
“To beer! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems” - Homer Simpson
Moiz K. Malik, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." - Niccolo Machiavelli
Ray Yip, almost 10 years ago
"Yesterday you said tomorrow" - nike
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
Gustaf Zetterlund, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” - Darth Vader
Konstantin Pavlikhin, almost 10 years ago (edited almost 10 years ago )
I have a dedicated page where I collect little pieces of wisdom: http://konstantinpavlikhin.com/blog/favourite-quotes
„If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.“ — Carl Sagan.
„People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.“ — Albert Einstein.
„My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” — Winston S. Churchill.
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