Bob Gill on culture
Bob Gill10 quotes“There’s nothing in my head that’s worth anything at all because it’s the culture that put it there.”
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We need practice solving problems.
Bob GillBob Gill Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.
Bob GillBob Gill 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.
Bill BrysonBill Bryson If you haven’t read Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
Bob GillBob Gill I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside…that’s why I’ve never had a job.
Bob GillBob Gill Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
Bob GillBob Gill 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.
Bob GillBob Gill Be stimulated by rejection
Bob GillBob Gill How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.
Bob GillBob Gill
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Life is a journey through the sea between the Islands of birth and success.
AurthurAurthur There are times when god speaks. You might not hear the words, but you’ll see. You’ll see.
Sonya TeclaiSonya Teclai For in the wild I feel the safest where the thorns of the invisible hand can not prick me.
Raha ArazRaha Araz I tried to write you something uplifting but I could only see grey.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados I want to spend the rest of my coffee’s with you.
Jessica PickardJessica Pickard Never again will I give, give myself to those who refuse to see my fire.
TMCTMC You attract the energy you give out to the world.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson We are built on a foundation of facades.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
Aaron SwartzAaron Swartz Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.
Aaron McGruderAaron McGruder It may sound weird, but I don’t really look for culture, particularly in an American city.
Aaron McGruderAaron McGruder I don’t think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
Aaron McGruderAaron McGruder The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold