“Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you’re hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you’re doing.”
~Amber Naslund, Social Media Today
“Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers.”
“Advertising is the ‘wonder’ in Wonder Bread.”
~ Jef I. Richards
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.”
~ Greer Garson
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
~ Confucius
“Work and Play are words used to describe the same thing under different circumstances.”
~ Mark Twain
“Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!”
~Lee Fox Williams
“If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well”
~Proverb
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
~Confucius
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
~ Oscar Wilde
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
~ Thomas A. Edison
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” ~Salvador Dalí
“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.”
~ Jon Stewart
The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd as to refer to the latter as a poet.
— Douglas Martin
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
— John Dewey
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
— Tate Linden
Happiness… it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.
— Valerie Pettis
