Quotes that move the world along:
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. - Meryl Streep
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. - Toni Morrison
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. - Rumi
Battles are fought in the mind and won in the heart. - Emmanuel Jal
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy, you will find yourself. - Yohji Yamamoto
There's only one rule I know of: You've got to be kind. - Kurt Vonnegut
Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. - Austin Kleon
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead. - Austin Kleon
Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. - Austin Kleon
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. - Austin Kleon
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done. -Austin Kleon
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be. - Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. - Roald Dahl
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. - Roald Dahl
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. -Albert Einstein
Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with. -Seth Godin
All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas. -Seth Godin
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. - Marianne Williamson
The true brilliance of the human-centered design process is that it keeps us humble. I am in awe of his humbleness. - Susie Wise, Stanford d.school