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“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best
comes from them”
― Rita Levi-Montalcini

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often”
― Winston Churchill

“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
― Lou Holtz

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
― James McNeill Whistler

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbour’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”
― Confucius

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding
and forgiving.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“God himself, sir, does not propose to
judge a man until the end of his days.” Why should you and I?”
― Dr. Johnson

“Every man I meet is my superior in some way.
In that, I learn of him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”
― The Reader’s Digest Association

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
― Thomas Edison

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
― Babe Ruth

“My success is based on persistence, not luck.”
― Estee Lauder

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.”
― Helen Keller

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“It’s amazing, the psychology of growing in your field, no matter
what you do. Growth comes from mistakes. You have to cherish
them, so you can learn from them. Your mistakes are your greatest
gift.”
― Quincy Jones

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
― Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski

“You have a choice,” Dan said. “You can be good at those twenty-five things or you can be world-class at the five. Most people have so many things they want to do that they never do a single thing well. If I’ve learned one thing from Mr. Buffett, it’s that the Avoidance List is the secret to being world-class. “Success,” he added, “is a result of prioritizing your desires.”
― Alex Banayan, The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers

“Good design is good business.”
― Thomas J. Watson Jr.

“Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?"

Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“You will never get what you don’t
ask for. You can’t find what you aren’t looking for. “You miss
100% of the shots you don’t take.”
― Wayne Gretzky

“Grief is the price we pay for love”
― Queen Elizabeth II