Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
~ Howard H. Aiken
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New ideas →
Knowing →
Knowledge is the beginning of practice; Doing is the completion of knowing.
~ Wang Yangming
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The flowers that blossom →
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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Taken for granted →
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
~ Bertrand Russell
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Sight →
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Cynicism →
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
~ George S. Patton
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Restful →
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
~ Hal Boyle
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Options →
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Inevitable failure →
It’s inevitable that you’re going to fail. If you’re not failing, then you’re definitely doing something wrong because you’re supposed to find your limits. There are parts of it that are going to suck the whole way along— that’s a perfect possibility, but you’re going to grow.
~ Adam McClellan
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Fail miserably →
You may fail miserably, or you’re gonna break through it— you’re gonna learn something new about yourself, and you’re gonna develop a new skill out of necessity that you didn’t have at the beginning of the painting. So that’s what keeps me excited about making paintings, is because I couldn’t do the same thing over and over again. I have to manufacture some sort of potential failure there.
~ Jonny Hart
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