November 2012
5 posts
“We’re always learning, always improving and being our own worst critiques. In my...”
– Richard Clark via the pastry box project (via galitl)
“People ignore design that ignores people”
– Frank Chimero (via piktograf)
“I was always seeking to affect the lives of millions of people – not through...”
– Massimo Vignelli
“You are responsible for the things you help put in the world. If you do not...”
– Mike Monteiro
“The best designers draw from personal experiences”
– …So live life outside design, experience new things, explore. You’ll be a better designer. - Jenny Lam - Women in Tech (via gregmelander)
September 2012
6 posts
“You need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most...”
– Barack Obama
“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the...”
– — Brandon Mull
“If all else fails, [working harder than anyone else] is the greatest competitive...”
– John C Jay
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
– Dr. Seuss
“Whatever you are, be a good one!”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by...”
– Martha Graham
August 2012
33 posts
“Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate...”
– Paul Graham
“Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”
– The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking they can do...”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“We are so wrong about people so much of the time. It’s so easy to assume...”
– Jennifer Garner
“Happiness is your own responsibility. You can’t look to your relationship,...”
– Jennifer Garner
“There’s no such thing as a dumb user. … There are only dumb products”
– Timothy Prestero
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
– David Allen
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up …. our real selves, the children...”
– Maya Angelou
“To clarify, add detail. Imagine that, to clarify, add detail. Clutter and...”
– Edward Tufte
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a...”
– Anne Lamott (via amandaonwriting)
“…most good ideas… come into our minds as hunches: small fragments of...”
– Steven Johnson
“I’m utterly convinced that the key to lifelong success is the regular exercise...”
– True Secret to Success (It’s Not What You Think), by Geoffrey James
“Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of...”
– George Orwell on why write (via explore-blog)
“The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterward.”
– Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation, 1964 (via explore-blog)
“You can do anything – but not everything.”
– David Allen, author of the modern classic Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.
(ᔥ swissmiss)
“It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and...”
– Bernard Berenson
“Success is based on action. The more you volunteer, the more you get to act....”
– 9 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People, by Jeff Haden
“There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an...”
– Raising Successful Children, by Madeline Levine
“Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in...”
– What Is Science? An omnibus of definitions, from Feynman to Sagan to Curie. (via explore-blog)
“The point of teaching is the opportunity to think new things, find out new...”
– Peter Levi | Poet and Professor of Poetry at University of Oxford
“The number one way I found to attract people was to help them connect with their...”
– Seth Godin (Because, as Anaïs Nin famously said, “the earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.)
(↬ swissmiss)
“We do what we dream we can do”
– Nona Melander
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the...”
– Clayton Christensen
“This is the essence of the popular arts in America: Be a magpie, take from...”
– (via explore-blog)
“Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve...”
– Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling on where good ideas come from, in 61 brilliant seconds. (via explore-blog)
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle
“The intellect is characterized by a natural inability to comprehend life....”
– Henri Bergson (via explore-blog)
“No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by...”
– Bob Gill
“The grass is greener…where you water it”
– “As Long As You Love Me” Lyrics (via gregmelander)
“A quality of great art is its ability to guide attention from one of its parts...”
– E. O. Wilson (via explore-blog)
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the...”
– Clayton Christensen, echoing Rilke.
(↬ Austin Kleon)
“Recognizing that anyone is capable, under the right circumstances, of anything,...”
– Jayson Blair on Jonah Lehrer. (via explore-blog)
“The art of teaching in the art of assisting discovery.”
– Mark Van Doren (via explore-blog)
July 2012
301 posts
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss (via kari-shma)
“Listen to Mustn’ts, child, listen to the Don’ts. Listen to the...”
– - Shel Silverstein
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally...”
– ― Dr. Seuss
“In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness...”
– Mark Nepo (via explore-blog)
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the...”
– Henry Miller (via explore-blog)
“Wars break out because nations misunderstand each other. We shall not have peace...”
– In 1896, French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin reinstated the Ancient Greek Olympic Games as an antidote to war (via explore-blog) 