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John Maeda Quotes

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Man Simplicity Early Career Complex

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

Work Art People Artist Never Hot

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Work Medical Physics Become Trend

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

Comfort Zone Doing Comfort Outside

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Life Shoes Me Play Want Why

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.

Laugh Try Audience Majority Make

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

Work People Find Circumstances Right

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

Life Man Thought My Life You Nobody

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

Time Stand Him Two Stage Side

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Rosalind Wiseman

Family Mother Sister My Own Own Her

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

Influence Understanding Important

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

Jean Craighead George

Writing Loved Because Well Did Kept

I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Family Music Children Experience You

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