Quotes of Note

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be..."

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:56:31 -0500

“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)

"You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:17:58 -0500

“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

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Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:20:27 -0400

"You never change things by ﬁghting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that..."

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:53:21 -0400

“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)

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

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:56:11 -0400

“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

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,..."

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:52:44 -0400

““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)

"We all have an idea… We all have something we want to make, for no other reason than we want it to..."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:20:00 -0500

“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

"An Innovation is the conversion of a new idea into profits."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:28:05 -0500

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

- AG Lafley

"What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others,..."

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:45:27 -0500

“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

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation, and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that,..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:55:22 -0500

““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)

"He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:53:57 -0500

“He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.”

- Danish Proverb (via eloquentandhonest)

"Our intuition is illuminated by the headlights of our own experience."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:51:42 -0500

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

- Anon

"Albert Einstein put it succinctly when he said insight “comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive..."

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:59:25 -0400

“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