The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. – Patti Smith

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun-tzu

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. – Howard Mumford Jones

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn't work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it's not good. It gets worse. You go at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing this isn't going to work. And it does! – Saul Bass

Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction. – Francis Picabia

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. – Theodore Roosevelt

When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create. – Why The Lucky Stiff

What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. – Lisel Mueller

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. – Henry Adams

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. – Theodore Roosevelt

If you show up for the muse consistently, then she will start showing up for you. – Mary Oliver

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. – James Allen

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Content is like Water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. – Josh Clark

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. – Robert A. Heinlein

This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do something, I lose interest. And you don’t grow. So I’d say it’s good you don’t fit in. – John Maeda

In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force. – Herman Hesse

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. – Guy de Maupassant

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. – Seymour Papert

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. – Jerry Seinfeld

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun-tzu

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. – Bernard M. Baruch