Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

-Nathaniel Branden A true love to God must begin with a delight in his holiness. -Jonathan Edwards If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. -Latin Proverb No person has the right to break the rules in a discipline until he has first ma stered them one by one and appreciated why they were created. -China Sinclair When things come to the worse, they generally mend. -Susanna Moodie The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -Ralph Wa ldo Emerson The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. -Edmund Burke Any man can work when every stroke of his hand brings down the fruit rattling fr om the tree to the ground; but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement, by the power of faith, through years and years and years, and t o die, as Moses did, without the sight of the promised landthat requires a herois m which is transcendent. -Henry Ward Beecher Enter into conversation the next time you are at the club, or in a hotel, or res taurant, or wherever you meet men in intellectual hospitality, on almost any sub ject you may choose, you will be amazed at the information, the original thought , the keen analysis, even the constructive ideas of most of the men there. -Alb ert J. Beveridge, The Young Man and the World, 1905. The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future. -Shirley Trusty Corey Technology is a great blessing. It is behind much of our progress. But if we're not careful with it, it can start running us ragged. This is the person who spen ds the day responding to e-mail and voice mail; the person who allows himself to be interrupted by the cell phone during an important meeting; the person who st ays up late at night because he can't log off the Internet. We need to take char ge of it. Right now, it's taking charge of us. We need to preserve time to stop and think. -Dr. Edward Hallowell, Why can't you pay attention anymore?, news.cn et.com. If you don't allow yourself to stop and think, you're not getting the best of yo ur brain. What your brain is best equipped to do is to think, to analyze, to dis sect and create. And if you're simply responding to bits of stimulation, you won 't ever go deep. -Dr. Edward Hallowell, Why can't you pay attention anymore?, n ews.cnet,com. My experience is what I agree to attend to. -William James Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are bless ings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messa ges from the brain. -H. I. Phillips It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. -Margaret Bonnano Give other people a reason to remember you, and they will. The mind delights in making connections. -Nicholas Boothman, How to Make People Like You in 90 Seco nds or Less. The greatest hope that the devil hath, of bringing you to damnation without a re scue, is by keeping you blindfold and ignorant of your state, and making you bel ieve that you may do well enough in the way that you are in. -Richard Baxter Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he ha s to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. -Johan n von Goethe I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. -W . Somerset Maugham When two instruments that have essentially the same frequency band play at the s ame volume at the same time, the result is a fight for attention. Think of it th is way: You dont usually hear a lead vocal and a guitar solo at the same time, do you? Thats because the human ear cant decide which to listen to and becomes confu

sed and fatigued as a result. -Bobby Owsinski, The Mixing Engineers Handbook, Se cond Edition. Studies have shown that as many as 55% of all people in our culture are motivate d primarily by what they see (Visual), 15% by what they hear (Auditory) and 30% by physical sensation (Kinesthetic). -Nicholas Boothman, How to Make People Lik e You in 90 Seconds or Less. The graphic designer conceives, plans, and executes a design that communicates a direct message to a specific audience. The term design refers to the planned arr angement of visual elements organized and prioritized into a cohesive whole that becomes the visual message. - Elizabeth Resnick, Design for Communication: Con ceptual Graphic Design Basics. Visual language can convey facts and ideas in a wider and deeper range than almo st any other means of communication. It can reinforce the static verbal concept with the sensory vitality of dynamic imagery. -Gyorgy Kepes Visual language consists of the basic elements of two- and three-dimensional des ign: line, shape, texture, value, color, composition, volume, mass, and space, a nd how they combine to create balance, unity, proportion, rhythm, and sequence. - Elizabeth Resnick, Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics . Simple stated, content is what you want to say, and form is how you choose to sa y it. - Elizabeth Resnick, Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics. An objective is the desired result, or goal, of any course of action. In design, our course of action is to project a message to a specified audience in the hop e of obtaining a desired response from them. - Elizabeth Resnick, Design for Co mmunication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be despera te. -G.K. Chesterton, Heretics. People who have no fear of God soon have no fear of manno respect for human laws and authorities. -Charles W. Colson A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God. -Charles Fi nney Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. -Billy Graham The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. -G.K. Chester ton, The Book of Job: An Introduction, 1907.