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Hi I’m Warren
Let me tell you, I’m a really smart guy. My fingers are long and beautiful. I love the poorly educated. I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things. I have the best words. I’m also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs. I’m a very stable genius. It is what it is.*

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I love great quotes. I’ve been collecting these over the years…

The artist is more important than the art. Leroy Nieman

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in awhile, you don’t do things right once in awhile, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter. Leroy “Satchel” Paige

We have to consider reality eventually, but it’s a lousy place to start. Kim Goodwin

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. Mary Oliver

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles and they can become your blessings. Author Unknown

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it…the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and the growth of our soul. Steven Pressfield

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. Simon Sinek (from TED talk)

To think too much is a disease. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy. Mark Nepo

People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing. Trevor Noah

I define work this way — if you’d rather be doing something else, then you are working. Fred Gratzon

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

The abscence of conflict is not harmony, it’s apathy. Adam Grant

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W.B. Yeats

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratcliffe

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow – it empties today of its strength. Corrie Ten Boom

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. Leo Buscaglia

No. Rosa Parks

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are three things people are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. R.D. Laing

I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it. Thomas Edison

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. Sir William Osler

Free thinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking: where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. Leo Tolstoy

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. Martin Luther King

Experience and reward and glory are meaningless unless you’re open and present with the people you share them with in the moment. Patton Oswalt

Everything great you do happens in the details. Ron Johnson, Apple Computer

Very often when we talk about the skill of ‘productivity’ what we are really talking about is ‘self-control’. James Shelley

The craftsman is proud of what he has made, and cherishes it, while the consumer discards things that are perfectly serviceable in his restless pursuit of the new. Richard Sennett, The Culture of the new Capitalism

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler, British poet (1613 – 1680)

Progress depends on people thinking independently and following their curiosity as far as they can, including doing things others around them refuse to try. Scott Berkun

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge

Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider! George Carlin

There’s a myth in art (and business) that everything you do must be new and different. Just put the old ideas through your unique soul and what you produce will be different enough. Laura George

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

People are waiting to be led. Seth Godin

There are two types of people in the world – those who walk into a room and say “Here I am!”. And those who walk into a room and say “There you are!”. Ed Mylett

Fear often disguises itself as something else – anger or dislike or derision. Fear can be as tricky as a virus, and just as contagious. It can infect you without your being fully aware of it. It can change the makeup of your personality and, if you let it, end up shaping the contours of your world. Theresa MacPhail

The world is divided into two types of people: jackhammers and hummingbirds. Elizabeth Gilbert

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin

Aspire to inspire before you expire. Rudy Hellenschmidt, my 5th and 6th grade teacher

Uncertainty is the essence of life, and it fuels opportunity. Tina Seelig, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”

What I have come to realize about money and the relationship you form with it is that is very good at showing you how you feel about yourself. Karen Graves

The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both. Lao-Tzu

I’m disappointed that we didn’t win tonight, but at the end of the season, I want my guys to either be crying because we’ve lost or crying because we’ve just won. And it shows that if you’re not doing one of those, that means you never really became a team. It was never really that important. Coach Mike Krzyzewski

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them. Seneca

The closer to power people get, the bigger the fucking grift. Danielle Moody

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat. Steve Jobs

Every time we automate a process in our lives, we trade a piece of consciousness away for a piece of convenience. Adam Baker, Man vs Debt blog

The joy of living is always available to us. Jon Batiste

Proceed as if success is inevitable. Unknown

If you can’t see God in all, then you can’t see God at all. Yogi Bhajan

‘Calling’ isn’t our job, it’s what we bring to our job. Richard J. Leider

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The key to making money, and therefore living a life of less stress, is to cause someone to joyfully give you money in exchange for something that they perceive to be of greater value than the money they gave you. Frank Kern, from The Education of Millionaires

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H.L. Mencken

Most things in childhood are caught, not taught. Ed Mylett

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates

It’s easier to critique a thing than to make a thing. Marie Forleo

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey

I will become more prosperous to the degree that I am able to add value to somebody’s life. Karen Northrup

By and large talent is in such short supply, mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. Charles Saatchi

Thought is the universal creator of all conditions and of all life, and everything that has been, everything that now is, and everything that ever will be, has been, is, or will be preceded by thought. Thought is the one motive power of all action, growth or progression. Elizabeth Duress

Hang out with weird and thou shalt become more weird. Hang out with dull and thou shalt become more dull. Tom Peters

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a happy dream, and tomorrow a vision of hope. Look therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life. Sanskrit poem

You can have more decisions than decision-makers, but if you have more decision-makers than decisions, that’s when you run into problems. James Everingham, Head of Engineering Instagram

It’s easier to say “I don’t like something” than “I’m scared of something”. Thomas Smithyman

Making big changes requires acknowledging our fears and taking action in spite of them. Chris Mamula

Everything great I’ve done I’ve had to have the courage at some point in the process to start over and rethink it. Steve Jobs

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford

A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves. Lao Tzu

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance. Unknown via @MarieForleo

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

Manifesting is not about attracting what you want. Manifesting is an awareness and an understanding that you attract what you are. Wayne Dyer

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin

Before you speak, let your words pass through these three gates: At the first gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’ At the second gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it necessary?’ At the third gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it kind?’ Sufi

The only meaningful interpretation of any religious teaching is to honor the divine within ourselves and love the divine in one another. Russell Brand, Revolution

If it tastes like liberation, it must be a good direction. Pamela Slim

It’s life, jump in. Tommy Kelly

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up. Pablo Picasso

Anger directed toward anyone is just frustrated expectations. Bronnie Ware

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. Fred Rogers

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. Rex Dean Villena

The mind is it’s own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven. Milton

Businesses are often trying to shape themselves to be safe, innovative, collaborative, and inclusive. But safety holds hands with fear; innovation holds hands with failure; collaboration holds hands with conflict; and inclusion holds hands with difference. Susan David

We will find a way. Or make one. Hannibal Barca, 247 BC – 182 BC

You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car! Homer Simpson

The problem with corporate America is that it’s filled with people whose egos vastly outweigh their talent. John Lederer

Is your day by design or by default? J.D. Meier

If it weren’t for the people…always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t for them, the world would be an engineer’s paradise. Kurt Vonnegut

The gift is useless if the writer doesn’t have the muscles of persistence, patience, and the ability to withstand the indignities and rejection inherent in the life of any artist. Gifts are nothing without endurability. Dani Shapiro

Comparison is the thief of joy. John Cena

Your outlook on life is a direct reflection of how much you like yourself. As seen on a Lululemon or some such bag

Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. Arthur Daley

…we live in a culture where how little sleep we get is like a badge of honor that somehow shows our work ethic and dedication. But what it really shows is just a profound failure of self-respect. Maria Popova

If you want to become an overnight success, spend a decade building your skills first. Steve Pavlina, “How to Make Money From Your Art”

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. Wu Men

When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple…just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. Ron Johnson, Apple Computer

In an art form, you start from scratch all the time. You gain a little technique over the years. But inspirationally – that’s in the lap of the gods. If I’m lucky, I get a great inspiration and it’s a good film. If I’m not lucky, I get less inspired, and it’s not such a good film. Woody Allen

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Teddy Roosevelt

Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. Lao Tzu

If the grass looks greener on the other side, water your own grass more. Brad Smith, CEO Intuit

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. Goethe

Entrepreneurs aren’t the ones with the best ideas. They’re just the ones willing to jump off a cliff without the answers. Andrew Weinreich

Too many companies eventually die a death of modest aspirations. A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin, Playing to Win

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you’ll know exactly what to do. Unknown

Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. Kurt Vonnegut

Most of what they call socializing comes down to individuals seeking their own individual gratification in close proximity. Jessica Wildfire

The creation and management of the customer experience is the only thing that makes you relevant. Kyle Lacy

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela

Installing software is like a first date: if it can’t be polite, smart, and generous, what should I expect later? Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants

The fish don’t just jump in the boat. Tom Brady

Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. Chuck Close

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago…had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Henry Ellis

Listen carefully! Watch people closely! Recognize your employees don’t love you! They are there to help you achieve. You are there to get them to do that and in turn be rewarded for their efforts. Don’t ever lose that perspective – it’s about results – not pretend relationships. David D’Allesandro

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus

There is a time when panic is the appropriate response. Eugene Kleiner

Every day is a new life to a wise man. Unknown

Life will always be hard. And life will always be beautiful. Cheryl Strayed

Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face. Mike Tyson

The best managers are shit umbrellas, not shit funnels. William Bernhard

You have the opportunity to create what never was. Forget about revolutionizing the world. Work for the joy of working, and without intending to, you will help to change your corner of the world. Charles Goslin (my design professor at Pratt)

The problem with a fall-back position is you fall back. Catherine Ryan Hyde

Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions; your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. Sam Keen

To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you’re just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you. Rick Sanchez

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 – 1986)

My richness consists not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. J. Brotherton

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 – 1986)

Regret is about living in the past. Anxiety comes from living in the future. Robert del Prado

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

The average man doesn’t want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. H.L. Mencken

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence. Duane Elgin

We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning. The afternoon of human life must have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning. Carl Jung

You work for others for the illusion of security. You work for yourself for the illusion of freedom. Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines everything we know, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Albert Einstein

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. Kierkegaard

I want leaders to decouple ambition with facetime. Morra Aarons-Mele

Everybody knows that fear of failure can sometimes get in the way. But fear of success often goes unnoticed, and it can be an even bigger obstacle. Mark Twain

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein

Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. African Proverb

America is one of the few countries in the world where nobody knows what enough is and what that means. Trevor Noah

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that’s how I look at my life. I will be better as a golfer, I will be better as a person, I will be better as a father, I will be a better husband, I will be better as a friend. That’s the beauty of tomorrow. There is no such thing as a setback. – Tiger WoodsThe lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better. Tiger Woods

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck

Some people die at 25 but aren’t buried until 75. Ben Franklin

There is no benefit in wrestling with pigs. You get dirty, and the pigs enjoy it. George Bernard Shaw

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. Hunter S Thompson

Empathy is not just about walking in another’s shoes…first you must remove your own shoes. Indian proverb

Life is full of pain. The suffering is optional. Tallulah Bankhead

Trust those who seek the truth. Doubt those who say they’ve found it. As heard on some TV show

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

In my life I’ve learned nobody sounds more confident than a moron. Howard Stern

Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time…the flower doesn’t go from bud to blossom in one burst and yet as a culture we’re so tragically disinterested in the tedium of the blossoming, but that’s where all the magic happens. Maria Popova

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. Alfred A. Montapert

Facts are stubborn things. John Adams

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. EE Cummings

Volunteering is for suckers. Did you know that so called ‘Volunteers’ don’t even get paid?!? Homer Simpson

When the world says, Give up,When the world says, Give up, Hope whispers, Try it one more time. Author Unknown

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

This is my simple religion.There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama

I have to make sure I don’t engage in conversations with people who don’t abide by the rules of evidence. Dr. Carl Hart

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso

Recognize the other person is you. Yogi Bhajan

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Wendell Phillips et al

There are more scary things inside than outside. Toni Morrison

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles and they can become your blessings. Author Unknown

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. Robert Louis Stevenson

I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. Ed Sheeran

A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better. Richard Branson

We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. Charles Bukowski

I wouldn’t trust a painter unless I thought he or she was crazy in some way. And it always shows in the work. Brice Marden

The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. Pascal

The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty. Author Unknown

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark. Joni Mitchell

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. Anonymous

To damage the earth is to damage your children. Wendell Berry

Until then may I too abide to dispel the misery of the world. Buddhist saint Shantideva

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality – and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing – it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavoured dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street. George Carlin

Don’t believe everything you feel. from Enneagram test

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. Nassim N Taleb

The smallest kernel of self-doubt turns the mind to popcorn under pressure. Kevin Cook

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. Author unknown

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Thomas Merton

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Raymond Chandler

I didn’t have time to write a short letter so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Gandhi

There are dreams (good), fantasies (not good) and reality (the worst). Jonathan Kaplan, Founder of Flip Video

Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to face it. Anonymous

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead

The deepest vocational question is not What ought I to do with my life? It is the more elemental and demanding ‘Who am I? What is my nature?’ Parker J. Palmer

The eyes see and the ears hear what the brain is looking for. Dan Sullivan

For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain. Buddhist saint Shantideva

Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness hasn’t given enough away. Alex Hormozi

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. Thich Nhat Hanh

Life is insane. This planet that we’re on, it’s ridiculous, nothing works, and nobody knows what they’re doing. John Cleese

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Albert Einstein

Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. Unknown U-boat Commander

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are. Satchel Paige

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau

Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it. Jesse Owens

I am not different from you. I am different like you. Dr Laraine Kaminsky

Those who pule loudest against all the various indiscretions and aberrations in the human animal are often the same ones who crave it the most. Mark Morford

Primitive societies live by the Rule of Might, and the strong prevail. Advanced societies live by the Rule of Law, and the privileged prevail. Enlightened societies live by the Rule of Love, and everyone is lifted higher. The Universe

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Tom Waits

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare

The universal longing for heaven is not about immortality so much as the wish for a world in which everyone is always kind. Susan Cain

If you obey all the rules you miss all tIf tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. James Madison

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. Robin Williams

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. Orson Welles

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan

Great minds overthink alike. Anonymous

You don’t get things in life because you think you deserve them. You get things in life because you fight for them. Ed Mylett

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck. Dennis Lehane

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. Steve Jobs

Toughness on issues, tenderness with people. Doug Conant, former Campbells Soup CEO

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. Denis Waitley

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin

The most important part of any business, product, or invention is that it must solve a real need and a real problem. Observe the world around you – everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do – solve a real problem and the world is yours. Aaron Patzer (founder of Mint.com)

I’ve come to view Jesus the way I view Elvis – I love the guy but a lot of the fan clubs freak me out. John Fugelsang

…don’t kiss an ass if it’s in the process of shitting on you. ShitMyDadSays

…my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Igor Stravinsky

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Marianne Williamson

Sitting and writing and talking to no one is how I wish I could spend the better part of every day. Amy Schumer

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. Thomas Watson

It is by forgiving that we are forgiven. St Francis Prayer

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac

The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money. Trevor Noah

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. Bertrand Russell, How to Grow Old

Great design comes from dictators, not democracies. Cordell Ratzlaff

The purpose of school is to get people to fit in. And the reason we want people to fit in is so we can ignore them. Seth Godin

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. Tyler Durden, Fight Club

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. Roald Dahl – The Twits

All designers fail all the time…on purpose. Scott Berkun

Modern-day conservatism, especially the Republican Party, functions primarily as a protection racket for the fragile egos of mediocre white men. Amanda Marcotte

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than the dead calmness of inaction. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

If you believe you can, or if you believe you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. Emerson

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. Gandhi

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini

I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My Nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight. part of the Navy SEAL creed

It’s not about getting it right. It’s about doing it so many times that you can’t get it wrong. Cheer

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. Wendell Berry

An intelligent hell would better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo

Sometimes those who are hardest to love are the ones who need love the most. Lucas Matazzaro

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp

Art is how you sell it. Rick Paras

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive. Author Unknown

Routine is one of the most powerful tools for removing obstacles. Without routine, the pull of the nonessential distractions will overpower us. Greg McKeown

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare

Logic is not the way to answer these issues: human behavior is the key. Avoid the engineer’s and economist’s fallacy: don’t reason your way to a solution — observe real people. We have to take human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be. Don Norman

He who toots his own horn can control the volume. Ashley Longshore

How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight? Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. Rumi

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. Robert Jordan

It is preoccupation with possessions more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell

Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order. Patrick Winston

Just because the tide is out doesn’t mean there’s less water in the ocean. Seth Godin

On the one hand, people want to maintain a positive self-image of being caring, intelligent, deeply empathetic individuals. On the other hand, all that compassion and intelligence evaporates at the first sign of inconvenience. Jessica Wildfire

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features. Steve Jobs

Those who do not know how to fight worry, die young. Dr Alexis Carrel (Nobel prize winner in medicine)

Unbridled capitalism is the dung of the devil. Pope Francis

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. Kim Goodwin

We all have much more time than we think we do; we just fill it with lots of scrolling. Anonymous

The world is divided into people who wait for others to give them permission to do the things they want to do and people who grant themselves permission. Tina Seelig, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”

There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots. Despair.com 2007 calendar

… In bureaucracies many people have the authority to say no, not the authority to say yes. So you end up with products with compromises. John Sculley

Every single person can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa

Monogamy is the only thing humans have invented that requires perfection as its measure of success. Dan Savage

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me. Steve Jobs

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

There are thousands and thousands of people out there living lives of quiet, screaming desperation, who work long, hard hours, at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like. Nigel Marsh

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. Audrey Hepburn

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. Scott Cook

Small talk is the tax that God exacted for the privilege of human speech. Katherine Wu

We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop people who don’t want it badly enough. Randy Pausch

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. Graham Greene

The wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. Charles Bukowski

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. Goethe

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own — for the children, and the children yet unborn. Rod Serling

The absence of information is filled with dirt. Anonymous

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we do not suffer anymore. Thich Nhât Hańh

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw

No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future. author unknown

Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Ian McLaren

If you can be happy that others are happy, you will always be happy. Dalai Lama

Our inventions are likely to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. Henry David Thoreau

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are made for. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

We (say we) want equality but we don’t want to give anything up for that, which means we don’t really want equality. Nikole Hannah-Jones

It is a sin to judge any man by his post. St. Augustine

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. Dan Quayle

Our country has been programmed to see white violence as protest and black protest as violence. Brittney Cooper

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. Nido Qubein

The audience doesn’t know what it wants. The audience only knows what’s come before. Rick Rubin

When you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up on you. Randy Pausch relating quote from a football coach

Vulnerability is the key to connecting with people. Cory Huff

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How. Nietzsche

‘If you stay in the game long enough, good luck tends to return. But if you get knocked out you’ll never have the chance to be lucky again. Luck favors the persistent, but you can persist only if you survive. Jim Collins, “Great By Choice”

What does it mean if it all means nothing? Lord Huron

If I were less concerned with you I should simply say it is very good. Samuel Beckett on critique of a friend’s work

Age is not the enemy. Stagnation is the enemy. Complacency is the enemy. Stasis is the enemy. Twyla Tharp

It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb, than halfway up one you don’t. Jim, quoted by Pam, The Office

I am not like other people. Other people are like other people. Charles Bukowksi

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions. Robin Sharma

Sometimes the most important things in life are the least urgent. Brian Chesky

Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore? Marcus Aurelius

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

Better to speak and be thought a fool than to remain silent and never be thought about at all. Jeremy Mohler

The most blessed people in America are the least patriotic. Scott Galloway

Priorities equal prosperity. Michelle Singletary

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened. Mark Twain

What we do not know still far outweighs what we do. Better yet, it always will. Mark Morford

You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it. Upton Sinclair

If I seem unusually clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. Alan Greenspan

Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. Paul Fix, actor

The greatest threat to American democracy is our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of party and in pursuit of power. Michael Bloomberg

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Rabbi Rami Shapiro

We are monkeys with money and guns. Tom Waits

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Sir Cecil Beaton

Pay attention to what you pay attention to if you want to know what to do with your life. Amy Krouse Rosenthal

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

If you want more creativity, hire people who demonstrate creativity. Do not expect to magically graft it onto people you hired for their rigid conservatism. Scott Berkun

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Gandhi

It is not necessary to try and get rid of fear in order to succeed. T Harv Eker

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up. Marilyn Greist

At some level, ‘this might not work’ is at the heart of all important projects, of everything new and worth doing. Seth Godin

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your reason and your own common sense. Lao Tzu

If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. James Madison

Thirty spokes meet in the hub, though the space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, though the space inside them is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, though the space within them is the essence of the house. Japanese poem

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller

I may not remember what you said but I remember how it made me feel. Maya Angelou

I don’t recommend asking for what you can have, or even for what you can give, nearly as much as I recommend asking for what else you can know. Because there is always more you can know, and knowing it will radically increase all you can have and give. The Universe

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln

This place where you are right now God circled on a map for you. Wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move Against the earth and the sky, The Beloved has bowed there – Our Beloved has bowed there knowing You were coming. Hafez

Dictators love chaos because they can respond much more quickly than democracies. Garry Kasparov

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Sir Winston Churchill

The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes. Marcel Proust

Career and purpose don’t have to be the same thing. It’s best if they’re aligned but it’s not necessary. Trevor Blake

As you go the way of life, you will come to a great chasm. Jump. It is not as far as you think. Native American saying

The future’s not what it used to be. Yogi Berra

Next time you’re afraid to share ideas, remember someone once said in a meeting let’s make a movie about a tornado full of sharks. As seen on Facebook

…perception leads reality and if you are going to create a reality you have to be able to create the perception. John Sculley

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein

Start before you’re ready. Marie Forleo

My take on people: A few of us are shining lights of love. Some of us are self-serving, power-hungry, mean pieces of shit. Most of us want to do the right thing. All of us can do better. Warren Croce

A good gift is something you really, really want but feel guilty about buying. Dan Ariely

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa

When I was twenty, I worried what everyone thought of me. When I turned forty, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me. And then I made it to sixty, and I realized no one was ever thinking of me. Bob Hope

Everyone loves beauty. Not just beauty in terms of appearance, but also in how we live, how we care about society, how we look after one another — this is all beauty. Victor Kai Wang

Laws are like spiderwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift

Your energy is contagious. So think about what you want people to catch from you. Marie Forleo

We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time. Mark Nepo

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

How you do anything is how you do everything. Winston, from John Wick 4

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness. Bruce Lee

Every successful person I know starts before they feel ready! Marie Forleo

Don’t try to prove your solution is right, prove you have the right solution. Mat Winegarden

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine. Erich Fromm

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Adolf Hitler

Very few things matter much, and most things don’t matter at all. John Cleese

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Martin Luther King

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau

O, let America be America again—The land that never has been yet—And yet must be—the land where every man is free. Langston Hughes “Let America Be America Again”

Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? Jim Rohn

You won’t find reasonable men on top of tall mountains. Hunter S. Thompson

Fear isn’t real. It’s a product of our thoughts . Danger is very real but fear is a choice. After Earth

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. Timothy Leary

I will live as long as someone has a memory of me. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin Roosevelt

My take on people

A few of us
are shining lights of love.

Some of us
are self-serving, power-hungry, mean pieces of shit.

Most of us
want to do the right thing.

All of us
can do better.

My personal values

Kindness
You’ve heard the expression “namaste” – it literally means “I bow to you”, and more broadly “I honor the light within myself and all others.” Part of honoring the light is being kind to both oneself and all others. (I realize this conflicts somewhat with item two above, BUT I’M WORKING ON IT, REALLY!)

Honesty
We can’t really have any meaningful connection without honesty.

Reliability
I know it sounds like something one would value in a machine, but I believe that being reliable is more than doing what’s expected – it’s being there whenever you are needed.

Laughter
Imagine life without laughter. It would be a very grim existence. I love making people laugh and when people make me laugh. I love laughing with people. It’s strong medicine.

Health
We inhabit our bodies for a short time. I believe we should honor our body and mind as they move us through life by treating them well. Self care is not selfish.

 

I like lists

BRINGS HAPPINESS

  • Seeing the people I love happy
  • Golf
  • Yoga
  • Art
  • Jackie
  • My sons
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Travel (after the airplane part)
  • Creating/Making/Designing
  • Volunteering
  • Great food
  • Hiking
  • The ocean
  • My car
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Learning
  • Vegetable gardening
  • Bodysurfing
  • Scuba diving with my family
  • My tattoos
  • The Price is Right – Showcase round
  • Drumming
  • Ice cream

DOES NOT BRING HAPPINESS

  • Waiting in line
  • Airplane travel
  • Traffic, (usually caused by)…
  • Distracted drivers
  • Inefficiency
  • People who have an opinion about everything
  • Micromanagers
  • Mosquitoes
  • Leafblowers
  • Fascists

WISH I COULD’VE

  • Seen The Allman Brothers (original version with Duane) in concert
  • Met Picasso
  • Known Frank Browne better
  • Had my grandmother Rose around a lot longer
  • Been a stay at home dad (though my kids are better off that I wasn’t!)

THINGS THAT I WANT TO DO

  • Go on a silent retreat
  • Travel to more countries (in no particular order):
    • New Zealand
    • India
    • Vietnam
    • Indonesia
    • Costa Rica
    • Ecuador
    • Fiji
    • Japan
  • Live outside the U.S.
  • Be a grandparent
  • Be a full time artist
  • Teach college-level design
  • Walk across England
  • Truly dance like nobody’s watching
Pecha kucha on my sports card collection
PechKucha
My name as colors
Warren as colors

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My name viewed from space
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Some of many cultural influences
Notorious BIG
Van Morrison
Steve Hagen - Meditation Now or Never
Grizzly Adams
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paul Rand
Mister Rogers
Pratt Institute
yoga
The Avengers
Tristan Jones - The Incredible Voyage
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Abbot and Costello
Bob Marley
Bugs Bunny
Nirvana
Quiet by Susan Cain
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
Howard Stern
Star Trek

*A mashup of quotes from The Orange Monster (aka Seditionist, aka Fascist, aka Racist, aka Rapist, aka Cult Leader, aka David Dennison, aka Convicted Felon, aka 45th POTUS)