Marc Newson Quotes

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

There is no right way to do life.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, 'This is how you're supposed to do it.' And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, 'Here's the good stuff in life. How do you get there?'

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

The less routine the more life.

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.