Daniel Pennac Quotes

You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.

The clothes have to perform for me.

This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers.

Don't ever be enamored by what something sells for. It's more important what you get to keep in your pocket.

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.

When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.

Getting enough protein is important when I train, to help build muscle and recover, so I'll supplement with protein shakes.

Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Saul Bellow says, funny enough, what French think of your work is tremendously important. And it is. It's more than what the Italians, the Spanish, and the Germans think. Somehow it's still got that cultural primacy. I feel that too: to get praised in France is better than to get praised anywhere else.

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Future historians will find it ironic that we had so many debates about climate change when something else was about to smash us.

Horror is very often the lie that tells the truth about our lives.