Sage Advice

I've had a lifelong fascination with quotations, mantras, creative expressions - whatever you choose to call them. I've always been interested in the sage advice of people who were making a difference in their various fields of influence, because I'm passionate about learning from those that have come before me.

I've collected them from everywhere... movies, books, lectures, magazines...writing them down on napkins, programs, tickets, deposit slips... and from sources such as inventors, thought leaders, business experts, artists, creatives and also from a few folks that just might surprise you!

It's my habit to post them in various spots throughout the house so I'm constantly reminded to think positively...to focus on the big picture... and to not let myself get bogged down with life's disappointments.

So today, rather than bore you with too many of them, I thought I'd share 10 of my current favorites with you. (They're listed in no particular order, except #1 really does seem appropriate for these times.) I hope you find a few of them helpful, even inspirational...

1.   "A lot of good could be accomplished in this world if nobody cared who got the credit."  --Author Unknown

2.   "A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."-  Antoine de St Expurey

3.     "I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got." — Tim Gunn

4.   “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise”  -Ted Turner

5.   "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." – Bill Gates

6.    "Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else." - JM Barrie

7.    "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."  -Harry Emerson Fosdick

8.    "It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart." -Al Pacino

9.    "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."  - Voltaire

10.    "I like to dream, but I like to make things happen."  - Heidi Klum


 
Do let me know which quote or thought you found most intriguing and please feel free to share your own favorites as well in the comments section below!  (because I just might want to ad them to MY list!)

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