"The basic principle of winning has never changed. It’s about taking the potential you were born with, living up to it, and helping other people at the same time as you realize your own dreams. As a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). You become what you think about most of the time. Thoughts become things."
-- Denis Waitley
"Whenever life gets overwhelming, go back to chapter one of this book and think about your days. Try your best to fill them in ways that get you a little closer to where you want to be. Go easy on yourself and take your time. Worry less about getting things done. Worry more about things worth doing. Worry less about being a great artist. Worry more about being a good human being who makes art. Worry less about making a mark. Worry more about leaving things better than you found them."
-- Austin Kleon
"Every day when he came home from school, there was a neighborhood dog that would start to bark wildly and chase him. Every single day, at the same block, he would be running scared trying to escape that dog. Finally, he just got tired of the chasing and the running and said, ‘Next time I’m going to find a brick and bust that dog in the head.’ “The next day he was walking home, minding his own business, and sure enough, the dog started barking and chasing him. He started running as usual, and then he saw a brick. He stopped, picked it up and turned around. As the dog got closer, he realized it didn’t have any teeth. He just put down the brick and said, ‘Get out of here,’ as the dog whimpered away. All our lives, many of us are running from things that don’t have any teeth to do us harm.”
-- Larry D Angelo
"We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance."
-- Wallace D. Wattles
"That’s the way goal-oriented people spend their lives. Each goal, successfully reached, finds them better equipped, with more experience, to set the next goal. Goals for such people tend to ascend in stair-like fashion, each one a bit more demanding and fulfilling than the one before. In a few years they find themselves accomplishing, with surprising ease, goals that would have been impossible for them when they first began their journey into meaning."
-- Earl Nightingale
"We have so little control over our lives. The only thing we can really control is what we spend our days on. What we work on and how hard we work on it. It might seem like a stretch, but I really think the best thing you can do if you want to make art is to pretend you’re starring in your own remake of Groundhog Day: Yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, there’s just today and what you can do with it."
-- Austin Kleon
"You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO . . . Try to do some BAD work—the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell—you are not responsible for the world—you are only responsible for your work—so DO IT."
-- Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
“For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info you need.”
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"The people who want to control us through fear and misinformation—the corporations, marketers, politicians—want us to be plugged into our phones or watching TV, because then they can sell us their vision of the world. If we do not get outside, if we do not take a walk out in the fresh air, we do not see our everyday world for what it really is, and we have no vision of our own with which to combat disinformation."
-- Austin Kleon
"The dictionary defines will as choice, intention, inclination, determination, tendency, and in order to make it the will of Omnipotence you must animate it, make it alive within you by enthusiasm, feeling, and animation until it becomes embodied in the subconscious mind. When man learns to choose wisely, he will choose happiness, peace, security, joy, health, abundance, and all the blessings of life."
-- Joseph Murphy
