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Quotes About Change

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
~ Edward de Bono
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.
~ Bruce Mau
The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.
~ Unknown
The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
~ Spike Jonze
What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
~ Andy Stanley
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.
~ Unknown
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
~ William Bernbach
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
~ Francis Crick
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
~ Charles Givens
Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.
~ Jonathan Ive
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
~ Jacque Fresco
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
~ Paola Antonelli
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.
~ Donald A. Norman
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
~ Jacque Fresco
We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.
~ Tim Harford
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
~ George Wald
In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.
~ Nancy Lancaster
I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.
~ Neil Young