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I wanted to share with you some of my favorite quotes, especially ones that help inspire and motivate me when things aren’t going quite as smoothly as I’d wish. Enjoy these, and if you have any that you’d like to share, please send them to me at JurgenWolff(at)gmail.com, or use the “contact me” link on this site. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." "The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others." "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." "The ideal way to work on a project is to ask a question you don’t know the answer to." "All glory comes from daring to begin." "You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." "An unused life is an early death. " "I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. " "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. " "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." "Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success. "Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. "In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. "To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is today." "Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. To be vital, awake, aware, in all areas of our lives, is the task that is never accomplished, but it remains the goal." People who study resilience in children have found that all a child needs is one adult who believes in the child, who conveys a sense of encouragement and faith, for the child to prevail. And I think that is probably true for artists as well…I think that at some point you do need to be encouraged—told that it is OK to be creating and that what you are creating is worthwhile.” “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. “Vision without execution is a hallucination.” "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." "The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed." "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
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