#nspirational

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #design

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#inspirational #life-lessons #design

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#positive-thinking #positivity #faith

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#faith #inspirational #lds #patience #sanctification

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #fashion #inspirational #success #design

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #designer #fashion #inspirational #music

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #fashion #inspirational #success #design

Everyone wants to be a God. We manufacture our own worlds, duping ourselves with things to escape the reality we call our lives. Drugs, alcohol, sex, work, school. Bigger houses, newer cars and designer clothes are the universes we invent to exert our god-like rule. We can't control the weather, but it's always a perfect seventy-two degrees in our central-air controlled worlds. ↗

— Brian Krans

#inspirational #worlds #design

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. ↗

— Donald A. Norman

#communication

Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. He ordered them to bring five different options and he would pick the one he liked. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#inspirational #design