It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Choose your corner pick away at it carefully intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

It is not easy to do something good but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

The details are not the details, they make the design.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.