13 Steve Jobs Quotes for Creatives and Designers
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The document is a collection of inspirational quotes by Steve Jobs, emphasizing creativity, innovation, quality, and the importance of simplicity. Jobs suggests that true creativity involves connecting existing ideas and encourages individuals to strive for excellence while enjoying their work. The overall message highlights the value of perseverance in pursuing elegant solutions and the significance of maintaining high standards in one's craft.
13 Steve Jobs Quotes for Creatives and Designers
- 1. 13 For creatives and designers Steve Jobs Quotes
- 2. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
- 3. “...focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains."
- 4. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”
- 5. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
- 6. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
- 7. “If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.”
- 8. "I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."
- 9. “When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.”
- 10. “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
- 11. “It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
- 12. “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
- 13. “The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind’s problems. I believe that very much.”
- 14. “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
- 15. In loving memory of an eternal inspiration. 1955 - 2011 Steve Jobs Keep reading...
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