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John Maeda Inspirational Quotes (36)

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The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
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Creativity's about ownership.
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Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
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Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
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Too little confidence, and you're unable to act too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.
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Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.
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If you have no fear, no one has power over you.
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Simplicity and complexity need each other.
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One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.
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The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.
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Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.
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Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.
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Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.
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When you're younger, think less and do more when you're older, do less and think more.
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I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
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People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.
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Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
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My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.
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Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.
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Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.
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The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
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With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
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In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
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