Megvan Minden Quotes & Sayings

I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online. — Khoi Vinh

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. — John C. Maxwell

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body. — Chris Evert

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — Amanda Hocking

A lady must be born of unsullied blood for at least three generations, on each side of her house. Think for a minute about where you are going to fulfil that condition. Then she must be gentle by nature, and rearing. She must know all there is to learn from books, have wide experience to cover all emergencies, she must be steeped in social graces, and diplomatic by nature. She must rise unruffled to any emergency, never wound, never offend, always help and heal, she must be perfect in deportment, virtue, wifehood and motherhood. She must be graceful, pleasing and beautiful. She must have much leisure to perfect herself in learning, graces and arts - — Gene Stratton-Porter

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living. — Satish Kumar

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE embraced not just the Blank Slate and the Noble Savage but the third member of the trinity, the Ghost in the Machine. The declaration that we can change what we don't like about ourselves became a watchword of social science. But that only raises the question "Who or what is the 'we'?" If the "we" doing the remaking are just other hunks of matter in the biological world, then any malleability of behavior we discover would be cold comfort, because we, the molders, would be biologically constrained and therefore might not mold people, or allow ourselves to be molded, in the most socially salutary way. A ghost in the machine is the ultimate liberator of human will - including the will to change society - from mechanical causation. — Steven Pinker

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core. — Sarah Dessen

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon. — Yukio Mishima