“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”

― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Life isn’t coming at you; life is coming from you.”

—Jason Mraz @ Carnegie Hall

November 23, 2011

quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):

There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl

Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.

—Jorge Wagensberg

“Rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones. If you show a highly polished computer layout, the client will focus on the execution not the idea. Show a scribble. Explain it. Talk through it. Involve your client. Let them use their imagination.”

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

The story behind the story- Confessions of an economic hit man- spreading awareness.