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Creative Quotations #2

Posted 15 Mar 2010 - 2 Gratefully received comments

Here’s another installment of quotations I’ve stumbled across. The last lot I published seemed to get a good reaction, so I hope these ones will be just as inspirational. A lot of these quotes are about life in general but I think they apply to designers, creative thinkers and business people alike.

Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. – Spike Milligan

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. - Dame Edna Everage

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. – Benjamin Franklin

There is far more opportunity than there is ability. - Thomas Alva Edison

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. - Paul Sweeney

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland

If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. - Red Adair

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. - Wolfdyke B.B. King

Underpromise, overdeliver. - Tom Peters

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare

Successful people do the things that failures never get around to doing. - Unknown

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done. - Allard Lowenstein

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. - Frank Lloyd Wright

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. - Kurt Vonnegut

First, get the facts, then you can distort them at your leisure. - Mark Twain

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far it is. - Unknown

What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas A. Edison

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up …and doesn’t stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. - Carl Zwanzig

Your work should be a challenge, not a chore, a blessing, not a bore. - Hal Stewins

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln

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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