You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
—
Wim Crouwel
(Source: designwashere.com)
Is the view worth the climb?
— An old saying about choosing your battles.
“A wise CEO of a healthcare company gave me advice I’ll never forget. ‘Just start. Don’t wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. No one expects you to get it right in the very beginning and you’ll learn more from your mistakes than you will from your early successes anyway. So, stop worrying so much and just look at your best bets and go.’”
-Jacqueline Novogratz
Image borrowed from here.
I will either find a way, or make one.
—
Hannibal Barca, 247–182 BC - General to the Army of Carthage
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth →
This may be familiar to many of you, so open it up you haven’t for a while. Really good timeless thinking – condensed down to what works and what you can use to create great work and grow.
1. Unrelenting attention to detail.
2. Impeccable taste.
3. Indefatigable passion.
4. Absolute conviction.
5. Unwavering vision.
6. Boundless curiosity.
7. Mercurial motivator.
One or two of these will help you make a living.
Three or four of these will make you successful.
Four of five of these will make you a legend.
Five or six of these will make you iconic for all time.
All seven will make you Steve Jobs.
- Jason Calcanis on Steve
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
(Source: trishpapadakos)
Search all the parks,
in all the cities,
you’ll find no statues,
of committees
—
David Ogilvy
