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“Don’t let your ideas stew for too long before moving into action.”

—Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter

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“A blog is a a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies.”

Andrew Sullivan

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“Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you’re probably doing good design.”

Yves Behar

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Michael Bierut

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Over the last year we’ve collected over 65 quotes on design and culture in our Quote of the Week series. This find of Si Scott’s visualization of the Dalai Llama’s quote “Learn the Rules So You Know How To Break Them Properly” is quite nice.

“Designers will have less control over the ‘look’ but more of a role in shaping the ‘feel.’ This is a big change—and a big opportunity. The task of designing will be more layered, more multidimensional, more theatrical. We will direct more than design. We will have to think more—about cause and effect, about here and there, about now and later. We will have to understand more—about space and time, about sound and motion, and about languages and cultures other than our own.”

Jessica Helfand

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“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”

Lou Dorfsman

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“When I came out of design school, I was making chairs that sold for $2,500 and it just felt weird to me.”

Emily Pilloton

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“They [letters] are my friends… Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever – girls’ bottoms – I get kicks out of looking at type.”

Erik Spiekermann

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There’s nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

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