Ive Seen Enough Quotes

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview ~ Jonathan Ive

If something is not good enough, stop doing it. ~ Jonathan Ive

Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see ... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better. ~ Jonathan Ive

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

There is beauty when something
works and it works intuitively. ~ Jonathan Ive

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly. ~ Jonathan Ive

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks. ~ Taylor Dayne

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

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

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way. ~ Jonathan Ive

The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental. ~ Jonathan Ive

We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people. ~ Jonathan Ive

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging. ~ Jonathan Ive

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

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship. ~ Jonathan Ive

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money. ~ Jonathan Ive

I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting. ~ Jonathan Ive

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. ~ Jonathan Ive

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design. ~ Jonathan Ive

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer. ~ Jonathan Ive

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on. ~ Jonathan Ive

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason. ~ Jonathan Ive

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

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

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made. ~ Jonathan Ive

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. ~ Cormac McCarthy

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

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

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers. ~ Jonathan Ive

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time. ~ Jonathan Ive

Good is the enemy of great. ~ Jonathan Ive

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt. ~ Jonathan Ive

The best ideas start as conversations. ~ Jonathan Ive

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

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. ~ Jonathan Ive

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

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

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. ~ Jonathan Ive

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products. ~ Jonathan Ive

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was. ~ Jonathan Ive

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include. ~ Jonathan Ive

We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy ... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda. ~ Jonathan Ive

Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed. ~ Peyton Manning

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive. ~ 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

Ive learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it. ~ Lisa Loeb

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. ~ Jonathan Ive

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do. ~ Shawn Colvin

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books ~ Michael Caine

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative. ~ Jonathan Ive

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

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than THE BABADOOK.It will scare the hell out of you as it did me. ~ William Friedkin

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

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? ~ John James Audubon

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with. ~ Jonathan Ive

First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically. ~ Jonathan Ive

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

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience. ~ Jonathan Ive

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. ~ Jonathan Ive

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for. ~ Jonathan Ive

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence. ~ Edward Snowden

Primarily, shapeshifters of the animal variety remain true to animal kingdom rules in their sexual behaviors. I cant say Ive ever seen two male shack up, set up housekeeping, and make crème brûlée together in their nest of love. ~ Dakota Cassidy

One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new. ~ Jonathan Ive

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. ~ Roger Rosenblatt

Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital corporations by experiencing a non-vital corporation. You would have thought that, when what stands between you and bankruptcy is some money, your focus would be on making some money, but that was not [Steve Jobs'] preoccupation. His observation was that the products weren't good enough and his resolve was, we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around. ~ Jonathan Ive

I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk. ~ Sammy Gravano

That's enough. You can stop now: the phrase Sedgwick said she longed to hear whenever she was suffering. (Enough hurting, enough showing off, enough achieving, enough talking, enough trying, enough writing, enough living.) ~ Maggie Nelson

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait. ~ Kay Mills

It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage. ~ Jonathan Ive

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families. ~ Lee Trevino

There is so much magic in knowing you, i meet parts of myself ive been at war with, your presence alone is enough to make me feel like i win a few. ~ Nikki Rowe

We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn. ~ Jonathan Ive

I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term "suitable for framing" should have a stricter definition. ~ Alex Bosworth

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin ~ Steve Martin

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

Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful. ~ Henry Beston

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence. ~ Jonathan Ive

You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When Ive been beaten up, if Ive been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say Im weak. I dont think thats a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If Ive done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them. ~ Richey Edwards

Just recently Ive learned to be okay with myself without wearing makeup. I think it was a special someone telling me that I didnt need it. I started taking care of my skin and realized I didnt need as much as I thought I did. ~ Vanessa Hudgens

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough ~ Sergey Brin

Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm. ~ Julian Assange

Ive grew up in Chingford, a town on the northeast edge of London. His father was a silversmith who taught at the local college. "He's a fantastic craftsman," Ive recalled. "His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up. ~ Walter Isaacson

To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to give
yoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning or
losing. Just DO. ~ Scott Bourne

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life - and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters. ~ Rita Hayworth

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good. ~ Rene Balcer

When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one. ~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes. ~ Jonathan Ive

So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve. ~ Jonathan Ive

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic. ~ Louise Penny

Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence. ~ Jonathan Ive

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils. ~ Stonewall Jackson

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news. ~ Payne Stewart

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen. ~ Joseph Joubert

I will probably have sex with Eminem after the show is over. Probably, I dont see why I wouldnt. Im fair game, its not like Im that picky, youve seen the guys Ive dated. I like Swizz Beatz, just because I would like to yell out in bed, Swizz Beatz! Keep it coming! ~ Chelsea Handler

To have enough of enough is always enough. ~ Laozi

Ive been to 50 of these 60 US states ~ Barack Obama

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