Scher Quotes & Sayings

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless". — Paula Scher

Beige is the color of indecision. — Paula Scher

No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it. — Katharine O'Shea

New Zealand looks like the future to me — Paula Scher

Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow. — Paula Scher

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War. — Paula Scher

This was a cruel trick of the mind, yes, but Teddy had long ago accepted the logic of it - waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without a history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present. What — Dennis Lehane

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries. — Phil Daniels

You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you; you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it. — Paula Scher

My love flew over the boundary of time
with incredible beauty and notorious rhyme. — Debasish Mridha

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall ... stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all! — Richard Baxter

Words have meaning, type has spirit. — Paula Scher

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. — Paula Scher

I just remember that everything looked the same-all style and no substance — Paula Scher

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag? — Paula Scher

Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that? — Paula Scher

Behavior isn't driven by permanent traits that apply across the board. Rather, someone could be honest at work, but deceptive with his spouse. People don't have character, but rather a multiplicity of tendencies activated by context. — Joshua V. Scher

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be — Paula Scher

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds. — Paula Scher

I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make. — Paula Scher

All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot. — Paula Scher

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else. — Paula Scher

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that's success for me. — Paula Scher

Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to. — Amy B. Scher

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design. — Paula Scher

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing. — Paula Scher

All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact. — Paula Scher

Great design is serious, not solemn — Paula Scher

Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking. — Pleasefindthis

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart. — Paula Scher

There will always be bad times ... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues — Mercedes Lackey

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over. — Alan Lightman

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved — Paula Scher