Quotes of Note

November 2012

2 posts

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.” —Daniel Burnham (via jacob)

Nov 14, 201280 notes

“You can get so confused
that you’ll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles cross weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…” —The Waiting Place | Dustin Curtis

Nov 6, 2012

#DrSeuss

July 2012

1 post

Jul 10, 201232 notes

June 2012

1 post

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” —

// R. Buckminster Fuller

(via platformsandpixels)

Jun 19, 20121 note

April 2012

1 post

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.” —

R.W. Emerson

Edits Quarterly × Ian Coyle

Apr 18, 20121 note

March 2012

1 post

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “awww!” —Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via The Great Discontent)

Mar 14, 201218 notes

January 2012

6 posts

“We all have an idea… We all have something we want to make, for no other reason than we want it to exist.” —Wilson Miner :: When We Build

Jan 27, 20122 notes

“An Innovation is the conversion of a new idea into profits.” —AG Lafley

Jan 17, 20125 notes

#innovation

“What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.” —Albert Einstein

Jan 13, 2012

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation, and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” —Warren Buffett (via ryangraves)

Jan 10, 20121 note

“He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.” —Danish Proverb (via eloquentandhonest)

Jan 10, 201237 notes

“Our intuition is illuminated by the headlights of our own experience.” —Anon

Jan 10, 2012

April 2011

1 post

“Albert Einstein put it succinctly when he said insight “comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.” —frog design: The Key To Design Insights: See The World Differently - PSFK

Apr 23, 2011