Ive Quotes & Sayings

Firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like?
jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any — Erin Hunter

You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned. — Gwen Jorgensen

There's no other product that changes function like the computer. — Jonathan Ive

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life. — Prince

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken. — Mary J. Miller

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit. — Sandra Bernhard

In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their brightly shining hair (after their necks, their most attractive feature), their arms, their beautiful throats, and even, if what Ive heard is true, a portion of their gorgeous legs; as a result, the men of those cities walk about with great difficulty, embarrassed and in extreme pain, because, you see, their front sides are always erect and this fact naturally leads to the paralysis of their society. Undoubtedly, this is why each day the Frank infidel surrenders another fortress to us Ottomans. — Orhan Pamuk

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better? — Jonathan Ive

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line. — Michael Angelakos

I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,' — Robert Brunner

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day. — Twyla Tharp

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can. — Gilda Radner

I've learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday. — Kacy Catanzaro

The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams. — DMX

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking. — Della Reese

The main reason we were close and worked in the way we did was that it was a collaboration that was based on more than just the traditional view of design," Ive says. "We both perceived objects in our environment, and people, and organizational structures intuitively in the same way. Beauty can be conceptual, it can be symbolic, it can stand as testament to progress and what humankind has managed to achieve in the last fifteen years. In that sense, it could represent progress, or it could be something as trivial as the machined face on a screw. That's why we got on well, 'cause we both thought that way. If my contribution was simply to the shapes of things, we wouldn't have spent so much time together. It makes no sense that the CEO of a company this size would spend nearly every lunchtime and big chunks of the afternoon with somebody who just was preoccupied with form. — Brent Schlender

We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do. — Jonathan Ive

You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are. — Alicia Keys

Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had
like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you. — LeRoy Neiman

I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit! — Ed Harris

In my experience I've learned women are better streakers. — Steve Spurrier

I have to be careful what I ask for in life, cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, Ive got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party. — Robbie Williams

I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more. — Ashleigh Brilliant

My mom always told me, "Whatever happens, will happen" or "Whatever is supposed to happen, will happen." I've learned you'll know when you find the right person. When I found the right person, I knew it immediately. — Katrina Bowden

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to. — Jonathan Ive

The number of 'act ive ingredients' involved in the occupational therapy process make it difficult to identify or predict factors influential in achieving or hindering the outcome (Creek et al., 2005; Paterson and Dieppe, 2005 — Anonymous

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. — Jonathan Ive

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard! — Jonathan Ive

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products. — Jonathan Ive

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it. — Ethan Canin

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries. — Scott Steiner

As a result, the process of designing a product at Apple was integrally related to how it would be engineered and manufactured. Ive described one of Apple's Power Macs. "We wanted to get rid of anything other than what was absolutely essential," he said. "To do so required total collaboration between the designers, the product developers, the engineers, and the manufacturing — Walter Isaacson

Ive got a ton of stories about Chuck Knox, ... Over the course of my playing career, there was nobody that I learned to respect and appreciate more than I did Chuck Knox. — Steve Largent

I've learned ... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done. — Andy Rooney

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency. I favor intensity. — Halle Berry

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care. — Jonathan Ive

It doesn't matter that they're broken up. He was hers first, which means he's hers always. — Jenny Han

You learn a lot about vital corporations through non-vital corporations. — Jonathan Ive

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this? — Jonathan Ive

I've learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough. — Jack Welch

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people. — Jonathan Ive

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious. — Robert Plant

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one. — Jonathan Ive

I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade ... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet ... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it. — Marquis De Sade

I asked Jeff Williams, the senior vice-president, if the Apple Watch seemed more purely Ive's than previous company products. After a silence of twenty-five seconds, during which Apple made fifty thousand dollars in profit, he said, "Yes. — Anonymous

I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring stuff in, and it's oftentimes the stuff that I've gotten rid of that's the stuff that everyone else is like, "yeah!!!!" — John Dieterich

When he isn't with me, I think ive made him up. — Jenny Downham

I've learned ... That you should never say no to a gift from a child. — Andy Rooney

Stupid rock gods! Leo yelled through the helm, thats the third time ive had to replace that mast! You think they grow on trees?
Nico frowned. Masts are from trees. — Rick Riordan

Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always. — Ariana Grande

I've learned that if you can't get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that's where you can truly make an immediate difference. — River Phoenix

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. — Po Bronson

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks. — Sparky Anderson

[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life. — Denis Johnson

Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent. — Amber Heard

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material
the material informs the form, — Jonathan Ive

I've learned ... That life is tough, but I'm tougher. — Andy Rooney

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists ... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer. — Lucy R. Lippard

There are 2 main things I've learned about following the Holy Spirit: It will never be easy. It will never be boring. — Mark Hart

My nards aren't clean
Ive been partying
With Charlie Sheen — Simon Rex

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. — Jonathan Ive

LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!! — Joseph Simmons

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable. — Jonathan Ive

To do something innovative means that you reject reason. — Jonathan Ive

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard. — Jonathan Ive

I want Otter to run back to San Diego and go back to the stupid fucking boyfriend, who Ive never met but cannot stand. — T.J. Klune

In regards to my artistry, I've learned the importance of being vulnerable. — Rayvon Owen

The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function. — Jonathan Ive

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead? — John F. Kennedy

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole. — Mark Nepo

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know. — Michael Pollan

I've learned ... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you ... More — Andy Rooney

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do. — Morgan Freeman

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances. — Seth Godin

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life. — Marlee Matlin

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. — Jonathan Ive

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole. — Jonathan Ive

My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally. — Wyclef Jean

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. — Joan Rivers

You're the most beautiful woman Ive ever seen. i just want you to be mine. I don't ever care what foods you like to eat or where you grew up. It's this primal thing with me, and I'm not a primal person. — C.M. Stunich

Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect. — Lovely Goyal

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals. — Arthur Frommer

What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common. — Rachael Ray

Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exprience.
The greatest lessons are from those we give the keys of our hearts to & trust all too easily; realising later on, they are just apart of this grande' story and not everyone gets to make it to the end chapter & happy ever after. — Nikki Rowe

I went through some stuff. And I got very depressed at times. It was like a marriage breaking up suddenly, violently, quickly. And I was just trying to figure out what happened. When we started putting this tour together, I started to feel better almost immediately. And then this there is this, there is almost no better antidote to what Ive just been through than to do this every night. — Conan O'Brien

Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can be theater, it can create a story. — Walter Isaacson

I've learned to ask people, "You're doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people." So what's made me who I am, my experience. — Bernie Siegel

The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson. — Ernie Harwell

I've learned that by doing things, things get done — Ray Bradbury

Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor — Len Brown

I've learned to question success a lot more than failure. — Kat Cole

I THINK ITS COOL THAT OTHER CROWDS LIKE WHAT I DO. HOWEVER IVE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD MIX OF PEOPLE AT MY SHOWS. I STARTED DOING THINGS ON RADIO ON ROCK MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE MARKETS. IVE ALWAYS BEEN A COUNTRY TYPE ACT HOWEVER I STARTED WITH THE ROCK MARKET. IM VERY INTERCHANGEABLE. — Larry The Cable Guy

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works. — Jonathan Ive

Extremist material of any kind always looks gaudy and cheap, like a bad pizza menu. Not because they can't afford decent computers - these days you can knock up a professional CD cover on a pay-as-you-go mobile - but because anyone who's good at graphic design is likely to be a thoughtful, inquisitive sort by nature. And thoughtful, inquisitive sorts tend to think fascism is a bit shit, to be honest. If the BNP really were the greatest British party, they'd have the greatest British designer working for them - Jonathan Ive, perhaps, the man who designed the iPod. But they don't. They've got someone who tries to stab your eyes out with primary colours.
— Charlie Brooker

Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger — Tony Pulis

It feels like each time we are beginning at the beginning, in a really exciting way. — Jonathan Ive

Ive never taken a vacation. Ive never been to Europe. Every time I planned to do something big, I got a job, and I could never pass that up. — Dan Lauria

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

And once Ive learnt to hold my own heart, I can conquer the feeling of yours. — Nikki Rowe