One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
If you are working from a clean, true need to paint, there’s a kind of focus that forces you to be honest. We think we’re making the paintings, but the paintings are also making us.
Leigh Hyams
 
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing … than five hundred who can’t see the point.
Patrick Dixon,
business consultant
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
Calvin Coolidge,
30th US president
If you break open a seed, there is no tree inside, there is only spirit; living energy in the form of potential.
Don Mateo Sol
Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
Kevin Kruse
Knowledge is most powerful when people don’t know you have it.
Shchedrina
“Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others.”
Lama Yeshe
All successful people have a goal. Not a fuzzy, indefinite objective, but a sharp, clearly defined, specific goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
Norman Vincent Peale,
writer and minister
“Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.”
Madame du Chatelet
“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.”
Henry David Thoreau, Journal
Reminder:
When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander den Heijer
