Aza Quotes & Sayings

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it. — Guy Finley

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all. — John F. Kennedy

When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem. — Aza Raskin

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? — Gail Carson Levine

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. — Madeleine L'Engle

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us. — Kat Edmonson

I need to get onto Aza's ship. I know where it's going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I've really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe. — Maria Dahvana Headley

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages. — Aza Raskin

God primes the pump of obligation. — A. P. Martinich

If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure. — Aimee Mullins

Never use a warning when you mean undo. — Aza Raskin

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? — John Taylor Gatto

You will find, as you get older, that the key to being happy is being able to turn those bad memories into treasured ones. I used to cringe at the thought of you being angry with us. Now, you couldn't give me all the gold in the world to take that memory away, because it reminds me of the type of person you were and still are. — Chris Dietzel

The church that took two thousand years to build in Iraq and Syria, started by the apostles themselves, has nearly been destroyed in the blink of an eye at the hands of manics who won't stop until they win or they die. At least that's what everyone I met in Iraq believes. Every single one of them. — Johnnie Moore

You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating. — Aza Raskin

You must fetter his soul before you bind your body to his in lovemaking, — Bertrice Small

Okay you guys, pair up in threes! — Yogi Berra

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young. — Carine Roitfeld

Living's a risk, Aza," she says sharply. "Heroes die young. Would you choose to be less than a hero? Here, the sky will light with fire for you. Our funerals are their sunsets. — Maria Dahvana Headley

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge. — Aza Raskin

I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her. — Maria Dahvana Headley

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line. — Jamie Campbell Bower

To the user, the interface is the product. — Aza Raskin

You hold no horrors for me — Maria Dahvana Headley

Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it. — Aza Raskin

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off. — Sally Rand

A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it's gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect and then it would never change. If I can just call it to life now, won't it always stay the same? Won't it stay with me as long as I live? — Erich Maria Remarque

Every time you make the user make a decision they don't care about, you have failed as a designer. — Aza Raskin