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Creative Quotations #4

Posted 10 Jun 2010 - No Comments - leave yours now!

Here’s another installment of quotes 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.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. – Henry Ford

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Agnes Repplier

Choices are the hinges of destiny. - Pythagoras

I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they are going & hook up with them later. - Mitch Hedberg

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. - Henry Ford

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde

Be yourself. The world worships the original. - Ingrid Bergman

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers

Good judgment comes from experience & often experience comes from bad judgment. - Rita Mae Brown

You can not depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

The first draft of anything is always sh*t. - Ernest Hemingway

Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence. - Spanish Proverb

When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. - Mark Twain

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. - Chuck Palahniuk

You’ve been criticizing yourself for years & it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself & see what happens. - Louise Hay

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams

Sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you’re the statue. - Terry Wogan

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

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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