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Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design makes a product understandable
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is long-lasting
8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
9. Good design is environmentally friendly
10. Good design is as little design as possible
Dieter Rams
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The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.
Louise Bourgeois
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I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
Benedict Cumberbatch
I can recall a person declaring 'Keep your hands off the cactus!' and I wondered, 'But why? What harm could there be?' Handshaking is an amicable signal.
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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.
Chogyam Trungpa
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I think that rather being overly-friendly at first, having a cold first impression and slowly making them realize that I'm not that cold is better.
Jessica Jung
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A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
Chinua Achebe
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr
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Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter." Piper: "Is that another joke?
Rick Riordan
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Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
Vivienne Westwood
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Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.
Nora Roberts
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He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
Milarepa
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We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
Cassandra Clare
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
Lalla Ward
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Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.
Corbin Bleu
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I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.
Corbin Bleu
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Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.
Bill Gates
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
Douglas Coupland
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I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.
Mike Figgis
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Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
Buster Keaton
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A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
Bobby Flay
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Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
Lance Reddick
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This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.
Jan Smuts
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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
Olympia Snowe
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser
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To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.
Emily Post
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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
Warren Buffett
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Tips for a long life - Keep Sweet, Keep Friendly, Keep Loving, if ye would... keep Y O U N G
Edgar Cayce
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Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
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How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
Julia Child
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Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.
Desmond Morris
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We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?
Sid Vicious
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Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
Dick Gregory
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If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.
Stephen King
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
Rajneesh
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
Petrarch
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Walker Percy
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May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.
Max Ehrmann
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The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.
Rex Brandt
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This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
John Cleese
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For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
Luther Standing Bear
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Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.
Rebecca Pidgeon
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There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.
Bobby Flay
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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
A. A. Milne
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Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.
Eckhart Tolle
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Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
S. Robson Walton
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We have every reason to say, and I note this with great satisfaction, that a truly friendly relationship has evolved with China, and in many key areas these relations, without any exaggeration, have a strategic character. As we say, the strategic character of privileged partnership.
Vladimir Putin