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We asked some of our favorite folks in the InVision customs to share the quotations about inventiveness, collaboration, and design that have stuck with them throughout their careers. Nosotros also shared some advice we've gleaned from contributors to Inside Design and guests on the Design Meliorate Podcast. Without further ado, here are those nuggets of wisdom.

"Emotional intelligence, more than any other gene, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at piece of work… I.Q. is a threshold competence. You demand it, only it doesn't make yous a star. Emotional intelligence can."

–Warren G. Bennis, American scholar, organizational consultant, and writer

"I don't retrieve information technology's an accident that there's a mirror at the middle of every large telescope. If we desire to observe another Earth, that means we want to find another us. We retrieve we're worth knowing. Nosotros desire to be a light in somebody else's sky. And so long as we keep looking for each other, we will never be alone."

–Sara Seager, astrophysicist, planetary scientist at MIT, and writer

"When yous really go for inclusion and belonging, that's when you start to see retentivity. That's when you outset to see innovation and heightened creativity."

–Detria Williamson, former Primary Marketing Officer of IDEO

"The moment we terminate to hold each other, the moment we suspension faith with 1 another, the ocean engulfs united states and the light goes out."

–James Baldwin

"It is the long history of humankind (and creature kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise about effectively have prevailed."

–Charles Darwin

"You lot must develop trust within your organization to create a fearless mentality that is supportive, aligned and collaborative."

–Shawn Johnson, Onetime GVP Product and Design for Discovery+, Discovery, NBCUniversal, & Microsoft

"An indistractable workplace is i that gives people psychological prophylactic to talk almost the problem"

–Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable

"We should use our opinions to outset discussions, not to end them."

–Madeleine Albright, American diplomat and political scientist who served equally the 64th United states secretary

"I notice the challenge of whether I can change and suit to interact with other people exciting."

–Dr. John Maeda, Main engineering officer of Everbridge

"I suppose I must set to work to write something meliorate, if I can…I think I should be able in a couple of days to do something. Notwithstanding I should be decedibly inclined to swear at you."

–A frustrated Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage (later on some notes were lost and needed to be re-written) during their collaboration to invent the earth's beginning computer

"Relationships are our greatest learning experiences."

–Debbie Millman, American writer, educator, artist, curator, and designer (best known equally the host of the podcast Design Matters)

"Alone we can do so little; together we tin do so much."

–Helen Keller

"…the 4 Cs (Critical thinking, Community, Communication, Connection) enables participants to create something bigger and better than they can on their own."

–Bryant Alexander, Program Managing director, Talent Acquisition Enablement, Uber (on the company values session he created for Uber)

"If you lot want to become fast, become lone. If you want to go far, go together."

–African Saying

"Individually, nosotros are one driblet. Together, we are an ocean."

–Ryunosuke Satoro

"Information technology takes two flints to make a fire."

–Louisa May Alcott

"Technics and wisdom are not by any means opposed. On the contrary, the duty of our age… is to unite them in a supreme humility which will upshot in a totally cocky-forgetful creativity and service."

–Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion

"Compromise is not a sign of the collapse of one'due south moral conscience. It is a sign of its strength, for in that location is null more necessary to a moral conscience than the recognition that other people have one, too."

–Adam Gopnik, American author and essayist

"Despite our initial friction, our team had an undeniable chemical science…we merely happened to take the right mix of personalities. A genuine respect for each other is key. I haven't had a team with that level of chemistry before or since. Having a topic that everybody is heavily invested in and committed to makes all the difference."

–Sara Seager, astrophysicist, planetary scientist at MIT, and author (discussing team dynamics for the Mission Concept study to Venus project)

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

– Michael Jordan

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"Live in the leading—the spaces in betwixt the rules." –Stefan Mumaw

Dani Cowles, Graphic Designer at HES

"Accept no fear of perfection—y'all'll never accomplish it." –Salvador Dali

Sarah Rose, Front end Terminate Manager at Northern Commerce

"The culling to good design is always bad pattern. There is no such affair every bit no design."–Adam Guess

Matheus Menezes, Product Designer at Clubinvest

"Good blueprint is like a fridge—when it works, no i notices, simply when it doesn't, information technology certain stinks." –Irene Au

Damian Jolley, UI Designer

"Design is not just what information technology looks like and feels like. Pattern is how information technology works." –Steve Jobs

Samantha Zhang, Design Lead at Graphiq

"Information technology's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to go permission."–Grace Hopper

Kathy Sirui Liu, Senior UX Researcher at LearnVest

"Digital design is like painting, except the pigment never dries." -Neville Brody

Steffenee Miller, Web Designer at Digital Resource

"Inventiveness is a highfalutin discussion for the work I have to practice between now and Tuesday." –Ray Kroc

Jevon Young, Content/UX Ogre at CleverOgre

"Creativity is nothing simply a mind set complimentary." –Torrie T. Asai

Akanse A. Anago, Graphic Designer

"Art is anything yous can get away with." –Marshal McLuhan

John Lyttle, Senior Graphic Designer at Lester Communications

"Design transcends agenda. Information technology speaks to the politics of optimism." –Paul Bennett

Alicia Kranjc, Product Development Associate, NowPow

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

Tanner Garbutt, Agency Projection Managing director at Web.com

"Get rid of everything that is not essential to making a point." –Christoph Niemann

Pecker Lord, Creative Technologist at Mad*Pw

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"The office of the designer is that of a good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests." –Charles Eames

Tim Heiler, Pattern Director at iconstorm digital design

"Graphic design volition save the globe right after rock and roll does." –David Carson

Davide Rotta, Graphic Designer at Matrix Net

"Creativity is nothing but the way to solve new problems."

Diana Santos, Product Strategist and Manager at Intelia

"Make information technology simple, but significant." –Don Draper

Łukasz Łukasiewicz, Designer

"Design can be art. Design can exist simple. That's why it'south then complicated." –Paul Rand

Bojan Kocijan, UX/UI Designer at CONDA

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." –Leonardo da Vinci

Pedro Pinto Coelho Gil, Designer and Creative Strategist at PACSIS

"Whitespace is like air: information technology is necessary for design to exhale." –Wojciech Zieliński

Jeffrey Geleijn, Visual/Motion Designer at Unc Inc.

"Leave information technology better than you lot found information technology." –Bruce A. Nordstrom

Aleksandr Hvorostyany, Designer at Funkytag

"Await at usual things with unusual eyes." –Vico Magistretti

Giorgio Laboratore, owner of Studio Lido

"People ignore designs that ignore people" –Frank Chimero

Ramona, Business Analyst at Nexstream SDN BHD

"You don't take to exist 'a creative' to be creative." –Drory Ben-Menachem

Christoph Wojciechowski, Designer

"I dear deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams

Ferran Alvarez, Freelance UX/Interaction Designer

"For every complex problem, at that place is an answer that is articulate, unproblematic, and wrong." –H. L. Mencken

Josef Strapáč, Designer

"Blueprint is thinking made visual." –Saul Bass

Marina Caramagno, Visual Designer at USEEDS

"Proficient blueprint is honest." –Dieter Rams

Abhilash Pillai, Senior UX Researcher, Freshworks

"The best way to predict the hereafter is to create it" –Abraham Lincoln

Bruno Peccoud, Head of Design, Fairfest Media

"To design is much more than than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: information technology is to add value and pregnant, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry." –Paul Rand

Maryna Smit, UX Practitioner, Sage

"Recognizing the demand is the master condition for design." –Charles Eames

Michael McWatters, UX Architect at TED

"How well nosotros communicate is determined not by how well nosotros say things, just how well we are understood." –Andrew Grove

Jane Portman, UI/UX Consultant and Trainer at UI Breakfast

"Adept design is obvious. Great blueprint is transparent." –Joe Sparano

Danny Schreiber, Marketing Manager at Zapier

"Where do new ideas come up from? The respond is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions." –Nicholas Negroponte

Anthony Armendariz, Partner and Head of Blueprint at Funsize

"Do not seek praise. Seek criticism." –Paul Arden

Dom Goodrum, VP of Pattern at Percolate

"If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You lot will exist alone with the gods, and the nights volition flame with fire. You volition ride life straight to perfect laughter. It'south the only practiced fight there is." –Paraphrased from Charles Bukowski's poem "Curlicue the Dice"

Todd Ross Nienkerk, CEO, Co-founder, and Digital Strategist at Four Kitchens

"The goal of a designer is to listen, notice, empathize, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to 'brand the invisible visible.' –Hillman Curtis

Sarah Doody, UX Designer and Founder of The UX Notebook

"Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style." –Massimo Vignelli

Joe Toscano, Feel Designer for R/GA at Google

"Those who don't build must fire." –Ray Bradbury

Samantha Soper, UI/UX Developer at Golfsmith International

"It is non enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, nosotros as well demand to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives." –Don Norman

Dawn Ta, UX Design Manager at ResMed

"If y'all think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad pattern." –Ralf Speth

Cassius Kiani, Partner at Mikleo

"Yous don't retrieve your way to creative work. You work your fashion to creative thinking." –George Nelson

Blake Sirach, Chief Experience Officer at WillowTree

"If you do it correct, it will concluding forever." –Massimo Vignelli

Tess Herrmann, Creative Director at DocuSign

"I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation." –John Cleese

Ghaida Zahran, Production Designer at Change.org

"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well." -Brian Reed

Marking Lamb, Senior Feel Design Atomic number 82 at Adobe

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." –Henry Ford

Aaron Epstein, Co-founder of Creative Marketplace

"Creativity is to notice a question that has never been asked. If ane brings up an idiosyncratic question, the reply he gives will necessarily be unique as well." -Kenya Hara

Ollie Khakwani, Product Designer at Inkling

"Pattern is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem." –John Maeda

Nick Yeh, Lead Product Designer of Mobile Apps at Citrix Systems

"There is no design without discipline. In that location is no field of study without intelligence." –Massimo Vignelli

Lisa Ding, Product Designer at Twitter

"Design everything on the assumption that people are not heartless or stupid only marvelously capable, given the run a risk." –John Chris Jones

Daniel Hightower, CEO and Co-Founder of Clariture

"Perfection is achieved non when there is nothing more than to add, simply when there is nothing left to take away." –Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jonathan Smiley, Main UX Designer at Quantcast

"Exit information technology better than yous institute it." –Robert Baden-Powell

Akshay Singh, Growth and Marketing at Creative Market place

"There is no such thing every bit a tiresome project. There are only tedious executions." –Irene Etzkorn

Scott Trounce, Senior Interactive Designer

"Simplicity is near subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." –John Maeda

Elysse Bonner, Product Designer

"The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases." –William Edmund Hick

Vee-O, Creative Director at Weebly

"Sometimes when you innovate, yous make mistakes. It is best to admit them rapidly, and become on with improving your other innovations." –Steve Jobs

David Ghent, Product Designer at Pivotal Labs

"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-production of a good thought and modest expectations." –Paul Rand

Jeff Hilnbrand, Product at Creative Market

"Simplicity, wit, and proficient typography." –Michael Bierut

Tian Jiang, Art Director at Salesforce

"Design is more than important than engineering science in well-nigh consumer applications." –Dave McClure

Zack Onisko, Chief Growth Officer at Creative Market

"Exercise safe design: Use a concept." –Petrula Vrontikis

Jacob Swift, UX Lead at Salesforce

"They don't want quarter-inch $.25. They want quarter-inch holes." –Leo McGinneva

Mitchell Joe, UX Designer and Researcher

"The future belongs to a dissimilar kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities marker the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't." –Daniel Pink

Cole Flim-flam, CEO and Co-Founder of ProtoHack

"Only those who attempt the absurd will reach the impossible." –G.C. Escher

Ian Ernzer, Pb Digital Designer at Butchershop

"The details are not the details. They make the design." –Charles Eames

Jiyoung Kim, UX Designer

"Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment." –Naoto Fukasawa

Marcus Pérez Cervantes, Lead Product Designer at Citrix

"Above all, call up of life as a prototype. Nosotros can conduct experiments, brand discoveries, and modify our perspectives. We can await for opportunities to turn processes into projects that take tangible outcomes. We tin larn how to accept joy in the things we create whether they take the course of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations. We tin learn that advantage comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the globe around u.s.a.. Active participation in the procedure of creation is our right and our privilege. We can larn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the globe." –Tim Brown

Chris Chappelle, Pb Designer at Bright Funds

"Everything should be fabricated as simple as possible, but non simpler." –Albert Einstein

Drew Bridewell, Senior Design Specialist at InVision

"Creativity is just as obscure as your reference." –Unknown via Aaron Wiggan

Chris Linden, Art Manager and Designer

"At that place'due south the whole Buddhist affair about the essence of a bowl beingness its emptiness—that's why it'southward useful. Its emptiness allows it to concord something. I guess that means that pattern must talk about something else. If yous make design about pattern, yous're merely stacking bowls, and that's not what bowls are for." –Frank Chimero

Mandy Collins, Marketing Designer at Remind

"Become in over your head as often and equally joyfully as possible." –Alexander Isley

Andrew Peters, Managing director of User Experience Strategy at EPIC

"Design is so simple. That's why it's and then complicated." –Paul Rand

Debby Chiang, Graphic Designer

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more circuitous. Information technology takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the contrary management." –East. F. Schumacher

John Torres, Product designer at Nutanix

"Proficient designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step alee of the times. They should–and must–question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must accept an intuition for people's changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of applied science." –Dieter Rams

David Oberholtzer, Atomic number 82 UX Designer at Gensler

"No. I don't think the Empire had Wookiees in mind when they designed information technology, Chewie." –Han Solo to Chewbacca about the Tydirium regal shuttle they're flying

Giuliano Manno, Senior Software Engineer/UX Designer at Meltwater San Francisco

"Whatsoever production that needs a transmission to work is broken." –Elon Musk

Antonio Marzo, Founder of Zen Shopping

"Artists can have greater admission to reality; they can run into patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can exist a very powerful thing." –Jay-Z

Harrison Wheeler, Lead Designer at Base

"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist." –Buckminster Fuller

Hunter Cake, Director of Project Strategy at Parade SF

"A user interface is like a joke. If you take to explicate it, it'south not that proficient." –Martin LeBlanc, Iconfinder

Jess Hamilton, Sr. UX/UI Designer at GoPro

"Design isn't crafting a beautiful textured push with breathtaking animation. It'southward figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether." –Edward Tufte

Abigail Beck, Product Designer at Twitter

"Innovators have to exist open. They have to exist able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also demand to be conscientious. An innovator who has bright ideas just lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer … Simply crucially, innovators demand to be disagreeable … They are people willing to take social risks—to do things that others might disapprove of." –Malcolm Gladwell

Kate Braham, Mobile Designer at Raizlabs

"I would be happy to learn just one-half the stuff I already thought I learned." –Unknown

Artiom Dashinsky, Designer and Maker

"Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people." –B.J. Fogg

Stanford Rosenthal, UX Designer at LinkedIn

"The work you exercise while you procrastinate is probably the piece of work you should be doing for the residue of your life." –Jessica Hische

Darren Wong, Interactive Designer

"As we subtract incertitude, we give ourselves permission to increment fidelity." –Jonathan Irwin

Mike Long, Product Designer at Pivotal

"Curiosity near life in all its aspects, I call up, is yet the secret of great creative people." –Leo Burnett

Thom Milkovic, Designer and UX Strategist

"Less is more than work." –Patric McCue

Andy Proehl, Main Designer at Meltwater

"Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, non merely to sum everything upwards." –Tate Linden

Jonathan Hammer, Senior Lead UX/UI and Visual Designer at Advent Software

"The near profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the material of everyday life until they are duplicate from it." –Mark Weiser

Ana Rosario, User Experience Researcher

"Y'all talk nigh UX like it's just some other feature. For a user, it literally is the product. Full stop. Everything else is within baseball." –Startup Fifty. Jackson Twitter account

Quintin Carlson, Product Designer at Inkling

"Design and art are independent coordinates that provide their greatest satisfactions when experienced simultaneously." –Milton Glaser

Josh Johnson, Inbound Marketing Director at Creative Market

"Here is ane of the few effective keys to the design problem: the ability of the designer to recognize every bit many of the constraints as possible; his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints." –Charles Eames

Jim Gasperini, Senior User Experience Designer at Hotwire

"Skilful design is obvious. Great design is transparent." –Joe Sparano

Aaron McCullough, Caput of Product and Pattern at Buzzstarter

"When you believe a thing, believe it all the mode, implicitly and unquestionably." –Walt Disney

Brad Aldridge, Pb Designer at Butchershop

"Content precedes design. Design in the absenteeism of content is non design, it'south ornament." –Jeffrey Zeldman

Matthew Moore, Growth Designer at Uber

"The soul never thinks without an prototype." –Aristotle

Bronwen Abbattista, Product Designer

"Do good work for skilful people." –Aaron Draplin

Jordan DiSanto, Product Designer at Remind

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, and so, is not an human action, but a addiction." –Aristotle

Lindsay Mindler, Caput of Design at Remind

"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values decide the future." –Robert Fifty. Peters

Cameron Reynolds-Flatt, UX Designer at Remind

"If you're non prepared to be incorrect, you'll never come up up with annihilation original." –Sir Ken Robinson

Ian Fike, Product Designer at Remind

"The best ideas come every bit jokes. Brand your thinking as funny as possible." –David Ogilvy

Joe Lee, Product Designer at Remind

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