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

We need practice solving problems.

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.

Be stimulated by rejection

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

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

I’M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I’ve seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence.

Sydney’s a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

You look tired. Yeah, I agreed, and shrugged. Near-death experiences do that to me.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Our Experience Is Determined By Our Conscious Response, Not By Instincts.