Quotes About Perspective

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

If this is dying I don't think much of it.

Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

Designers are not users.

Math is easy; design is hard.

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Theory can blind observation.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.