A Collection of Favorite Quotes

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." ~ Ray Bradbury

“Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will." ~Malcolm Forbes

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~ Nelson Mandela

"The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be with the important things."~ Brian Tracy

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares who gets the credit." ~Robert Yates

"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated." ~Lou Holtz

"The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B" ~James Yorke

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." ~John Holt

Ayn Rand Book Review: "Anthem" (1938) Favorite Lines

"The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them."  ~Ayn Rand, pg. 52

"They will see, understand and forgive. For our gift is greater than our transgression." ~Ayn Rand, pg. 61

"I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities." ~Ayn Rand

30 Seconds of Truth

 "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."  ~J.C. Watts 

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."  ~Dale Carnegie 

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do."  ~Helen Keller

AIGA Design Conference

AIGA Design Conference, October, 2008
New York City

Invest in your education. Always keep learning. Subscribe to publications from your industry. Attend presentations and conferences that interest you. Read industry blogs and websites. Listen to podcasts and webinars to expand your thinking. Join organizations to meet people with your same profession and interests. Read a book a month. Do anything to learn something new. 

This is what I learned at the AIGA Design Conference with speakers from Target, Martha Stewart, Pinkberry, Saturn, Google, and Rolling Stone:

"Great art and design is not an accident. It is put together beautifully."

"Design is HOPE made visible. Designers bring creation and cause, efficiency and brilliance to a message."

"We will always learn more about human life and possibility from design and art than from science and psychology." ~ Noam Chomsky

"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." ~Marcel Proust

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results. And reasons simply don't count." ~Robert Anthony

"He who has a 'why' to live for, can bear almost any 'how'." ~Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher)

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." ~Pablo Picasso

What will you do to always keep learning?

Anonymous

Four things you can't recover:

The stone after the throw,
The word after it's said,
The occasion after it's missed,
The time after it's gone.

"If Michelangelo had wanted to play it safe, he would have painted the Sistine Chapel floor."

"At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go in the same box."

“Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals build the Titanic.”

Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you imagined." 

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." 

"It's never too late to give up on your prejudices." 

"Things do not change; we change." 

"It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?"

~Henry David Thoreau

Scott Ginsberg--That Guy with a Nametag

Nine Things People Don't Care About:

1. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … how good you are.
They care how good you’re going to help them become.

2. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … what you’ve done.
They care what you’ve learned, and how those lessons can help them.

3. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … what you can’t do.
They care what you CAN do.

4. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … what they hear you say.
They care what they SEE you DO.

5. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … what you do for a living.
They care what you’re passionate about.

6. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … if you’re having a bad day.
They care how you’re going to help them have a better day.

7. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … about price.
They care about value, convenience and risk.

8. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … about your company.
They care about the problems your company can solve.

9. PEOPLE DON’T CARE … about being apologized to.
They care about answers, solutions and resolutions.

Life's Little Instructions

~ Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed.
~ The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is.
~ People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.
~ Life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived by looking forward.
~ What a big difference there is between giving advice and lending a hand.
~ Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.
~ Your companions are like the buttons on an elevator--they will either take you up they will take you down.
~ A man is not rich according to what he has, but rich according to what he is.
~ The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve his.
~ It's the little things in life that determine the big things.
~ Being at peace with yourself is a direct result of finding peace with God.
~ The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening.
~ The most valuable gift you can give another is a good example.
~ A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk.
~ Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.