“Be stimulated by rejection”

We need practice solving problems.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

If you haven’t read Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside…that’s why I’ve never had a job.

Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it’s even better.

There’s nothing in my head that’s worth anything at all because it’s the culture that put it there.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

We cannot afford four more years of a president who rejects science.

When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

There is only one you. Your life is beyond Valuable. Don’t let disappointment and rejection harden your heart. You are wonderful.

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a fan of football.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.