Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.