Collecting Quotes
Echoes of wisdom I carry with me
And they may inspire you too :)
“The best way to predict the future is to design it”
R. Buckminster Fuller
Bucky once said that if you want to change a system, don’t fight against it — design something that makes the old system obsolete. To me, that’s really about creating new normals through design.
“Design matters because it gives form to our past and dimension to our future...
Design matters because of the why, not the what; the sentiment, not the acquisition.
Design matters because people matter”
Jessica Helfand
Book: Design the Invention of Desire
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you"
Carl Jung
Unknown
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Nietzsche
Unknown
“People don't think what they feel, don't say what they think and don't do what they say.”
David Ogilvy
Émile, or On Education (1762)
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Book: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly then to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.”
“Winter, summer, happiness, and pain; Giving, appearing, disappearing; Non-permanent, all of them; Just try to tolerate.”
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is”
Sri Krishna
Book: Bhagavad Gita
“As challenges become more complex the appropriate strategy is one that mixes new ingredients into the soup and then waits to see what kind of flavours come out.”
Dan Hill
Dark matter and trojan horses: A strategic design vocabulary.
Selected Works
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