American Quotes

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

Being an All-Star is everything.

If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

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

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.

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

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

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?

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

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

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