1. "You can't have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic." -Stephen C.

Hogan

2. "When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So I
did 10 times more work." -- George Bernard Shaw

3. "If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with
almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have
to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way." -- Henry Rollins

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4. "Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes
out of you." -- William James

5. "Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the
discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly
enough." -- Sophia Loren

6. "Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the
secret of success." -- Swami Sivananda

7. "If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as

Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to
say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'" -- Martin Luther King,
Jr.

8. "All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become
lazy, selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work
that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are
today." -- Pope Paul VI

9. "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the
successful one is a lot of hard work." -- Stephen King

10. "God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." -- J.G.
Holland

11. "Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more." -- Edward H. Harriman

12. "The difference between try and triumph is a little umph." -- Marvin Phillips (or
an unknown author)

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13. "The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt
sleeves." -- Garth Henrichs

14. "Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there." -- Marcus Washling

15. "If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort." -- Robert
Brault

16. "You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or
better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change." -- Terri Guillemets

17. "Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still." -- Chinese proverb

18. "He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him." -Dutch proverb

19. "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the
recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near." -Margaret Thatcher

20. "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they cant find them, make them." -- George
Bernard Shaw

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

I find going to bed and pulling my imagination over my head often means waking up
with a solution to a design problem. That state of limbo, the time between sleeping
and waking, seems to allow ideas to somehow outflank the sentinels of common
sense. Thats when they can float to the surface. I find ideas often show up in the
shower, or while Im contemplating marmalade and toast and breakfast.

ALAN FLETCHER
If everyone likes your design, its banal. Mediocrity shirks offense. Art dares it.

JEFFREY ZELDMAN

The sharpness of the sword is not in

the edge of the blade, but in the hand
of the warrior.
Instead of searching for inspiration, how about you search out someone to inspire.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued
Great stories happen to people who can tell them.
When you are stuck, walk away from the computer and draw. It will teach you how
to see.
To attempt mastery of everything inevitably makes us mediocre in many areas.

The word studio is derives from

study. Our object is not to know the
answers before we do the work. Its to
know them after we do it.
Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have
everything
You never really see how toxic someone is until you breathe fresher air.

You cannot use someone elses fire; you can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must
first be willing to believe you have it.
"You romanticize bitterness and rejection. You write your own script and revel in your own grandiose
tragedy. You talk about liberation, about the walls that keep people out, about your cool discerning.
You talk and talk and talk; you never do. You're afraid.
You think you've outsmarted everyone. The only person you're outsmarting is yourself."
Nicholas Bailey
"That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for
who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your
pretense. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their
image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they
really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their
most precious possession." Jim Morrison