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Creative Quotations #3

Posted 10 May 2010 - 4 Gratefully received comments

Here’s another installment of quotations I’ve collected for your consideration. A lot of these quotes are about life in general but I think they apply to designers, creative thinkers and business people alike.

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Allan K. Chalmers

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost

Happiness is like jam. You can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself. – Anonymous

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. - Ernest Hemingway

The world doesn’t owe you anything, it was here first. - Mark Twain

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. - Leonardo da Vinci

I’d rather be truthful than correct. - Sir Thomas More

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. - Dr. Seuss

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Henri L. Bergson

Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. - Cecil Selig

Nothing makes a person productive like the last minute. - Unknown

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. - Edith Wharton

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. - Mary Kay Ash

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. - Albert Einstein

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. - M. C. Richards

If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old. - Edgar Watson Howe

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. - Theodore Parker

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy

Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux

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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