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Quotes From Creative Minds
A fun and mind-massaging assembly of quotes from other creative minded folks dealing with the subject of adversity.
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. – Maya Angelou
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. – Thomas Carlyle
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good… – Dalai Lama
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. – Louis Pasteur
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. – English proverb
You can only come to the morning through the shadows. – J. R. R. Tolkien
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. – Mary Kay Ash
Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the “impossible” was possible. – Anthony Boucher
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – Lewis Carroll
So many dreams at first seem impossible. And then they seem improbable. And then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. – Helen Keller
Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds. – Norman Vincent Peale
An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him. (Zig Ziglar)
Blog Confusion
Blogging has been sort of a 2 year experiment with me eventually ending up in 2 blogs – one for design and one for illustration/fine art. I’m combining them now and all future posts will be made to this blog. Keeping up with two blogs was intense – fun but intense. And, really, I didn’t keep up at all. The other blog “Ponder & Dream” will remain intact but no further posts will be made there. I have previously published art there (and a bit of history content) so if you’ve a mind to take a look please do.
In Engrish Please
A visit to Engrish.com never fails to bring a smile to my face. This example shows that some decent design might be found in China but decent translation sourcing? Not so much.
New Blog Rising
Blogging has been more fun and rewarding than I imagined when I started Ponder & Dream, my illustration and fine art blog. So as day follows night I decided to start a design blog. For all practical purposes this will be my main business blog. Here I will focus more on the design and illustration activities that are actually my bread and butter with perhaps a little fun thrown into the mix. I hope you enjoy it and find something interesting and useful here to bring you back.
