Inspiring Quotes - Page 39

• Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Years, Ideas, Drug

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• Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

  Winslow Homer

  Art, Two, Simplicity

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

  Lee Hammond

  Art, People, Putting Yourself Out There

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• Always face your challenges head on and make them your strengths.

  David Kassan

  Art, Challenges

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• It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

  Lee Hammond

  Art, Awesome Life

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• If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!

  Lee Hammond

  Art, Would Be, Easy

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• As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.

  Louis Tice

  Success, Business, Dissatisfied

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• A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

  Louis Tice

  Success, Business, Happy Life

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• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Confidence, Wise

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Religious, Home

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Best Job, People

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Dream, Technology

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspire, Important

  "What Higher Education Can Learn From Steve Jobs" byBrian Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

  Steve Jobs

  Memorable, Artist, Creative

  Playboy Interview, genius.com.

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• We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

  Walt Disney

  Movie, Business, Making Money

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• The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  British Rule In India, Nails, Coffins

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• Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Worry, Inspire, Habit

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Some defeats are only installments to victory.

  Jacob August Riis

  Children, Victory, Defeat

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• Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

  Richard Codey

  Mothers Day, Mom, Real

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• The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Intelligent, Body

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Design, Soul

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Two, Apples

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, People, Together

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• Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Country, College

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

  Steve Jobs

  Morning, Heart, Ideas

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