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“Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“It’s the job of the artist to give the audience what they need.”

— Alan Moore

“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.”

— William James

“Genius is only a superior power of seeing.”

— John Ruskin

“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”

— Yoda

“Many a false step is made by standing still.”

— Chinese proverb

“Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done, and then try to bring those things in to what you are doing.”

— Steve Jobs

“You can count the seeds in an apple, but you can’t count the apples in a seed.”

— Karen Jensen

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool”

— Richard Feynman

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everbody all the time.”

— Herbert Bayard Swope

“The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and suppress urgency.”

— Oliver Emberton

“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.”

— John Updike

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.”

— Lowell Lundstrum

“The only free cheese is in the mousetrap.”

— Russian Proverb

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

— Peter Drucker

“The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.”

— Bruce Lee

“Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.”

— Mark Twain

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas Edison

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.”

— George Washington

“Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way.”

— Amelia E. Barr

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