Favourite Quotes

Most use technology to define the function. We use function to drive the technology.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Dialogue is a process of genuine interaction through which human beings listen to each other deeply enough to be changed by what they learn.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

To clarify, add detail. Imagine that, to clarify, add detail. Clutter and overload are not attributes of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don’t start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Pain is temporary. Glory is forever.

Mastery is a pursuit, not a destination, and, throughout its unfolding, is a reoccurring cycle of losing who we think we are in order to make room for who we are becoming.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

On presenting to a crowd: It’s not about killing the butterflies in your stomach, it’s about getting them to fly in formation.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.