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Creative Quotations #1

Posted 18 Jan 2010 - 2 Gratefully received comments

I thought I’d try to start the week with a little bit of unconventional inspiration. I’ve collected a few quotes that I like and get a bit of a kick out of. A lot of these quotes are about life in general but I think they apply to designers, creative thinkers and business people alike.

Readiness is all. – William Shakespeare

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Harold R. McAlindon

Even within the limits of the possible, the possibilities are limitless. – Jules Deelder

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Henry David Thoreau

All glory comes from daring to begin. - William Shakespeare

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee – that will do them in. - Bradley’s Bromide

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. - Margaret Millar

When inspiration comes I want it to find me working. - Pablo Picasso

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck

Pay no attention to what the critics say. No statue has ever been erected to a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles Monroe Schulz

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worried about one year ago today. - Anonymous

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. - Tony Robbins

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. - Lin Yutang

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. - Harry S. Truman

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it. - Brian Tracy

My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people’s. - Oscar Wilde

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know. - Mark Twain

If you found a little glimpse of wisdom in any of these quotes, why not try a little experiment. Choose your favourite and put it on display where you work, this might mean a scribbled post-it, a printed sheet of A4 taped to the wall, whatever. As long as it’s somewhere where you can see it when you look around. You might just get a little kick out of it when you re-read it. It might also give you a little something to think about when you are stuck, think of it as a little oil to grease the cogs of thought in your head.

Let me know which quotes are your favourite and feel free post a few of your own.

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