#irritate

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. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#designer #designers #face #i #irritates

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do. ↗

— Howard Stern

#irritate #just #know #lightning #lightning rod

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #got #i #i am #i think

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that. ↗

— Kerry King

#go home #home #i #irritates #just

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert. ↗

— Pasquier Quesnel

#does #enlightens #irritates #only #those

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#completely #doctor #doing #ended #first

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#fiction #irritates #life #perfection #well

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #book #boost #confused #confusion