Don’t hire a dog, then bark yourself.
~ David Ogilvy
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Ruff! Ruff! →
New ideas →
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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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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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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Options →
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
~ Thomas Sowell
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