You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
—Robertson Davies
…So many of us go through so much of our lives being shaped, pushed, prodded, and even defined by the the gallery surrounding us. We put way too much stock in their feedback. Instead, set your sights on a grand vision which energizes you and fills you with passion. Don’t worry about the critics; chart your own path and forge ahead!
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. —Robert Browning (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. —Gelett Burgess, American artist, author, and...
One principal reason why people are so often (unproductive) is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits. —Nathanael Emmons (Image licensed by Penn...
The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face. —Pablo Picasso (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren G. Bennis, pioneer in the field of leadership studies (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. —James A. Garfield (Photographer unknown; Public Domain)
Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. The greatest real thrill that life offers is (the ability) to create, to construct, to develop something useful. —Alfred P....
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. —Mae West (1932, unknown journalist/photographer; Public Domain)
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. —Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor and publisher (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Next in importance to freedom and justice is education, without which neither freedom nor justice could be permanently maintained. —James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States...
It is by managing your finances that you write the story of your life. You are both the author and the story’s principal character. Resolve to perform what you ought. —Benjamin Franklin (1778, by...
Confidence and anxiety are two opposing forces; the two cannot peacefully coexist within you at any given time. Think of a subject which is causing you distress. Now, vividly imagine the best...
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. —Mark Twain (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Some days it is difficult to continue moving forward with our plans; those points at which we see very little progress being made, no matter the effort being put forth. Though we may not realize...
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1828, by Joseph Karl Stieler; Public Domain)
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. —St. Thomas Aquinas (by Carlo Crivelli; Public Domain)
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no...
Technological progress has provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. —Aldous Huxley, author, Brave New World (1954; Public Domain)
We love peace, but not peace at any price. For there is a peace more destructive to the manhood of the living, than war is destructive to the body. Chains are worse than bayonets. —Douglas William...
Take charge of your attitude; don’t let someone else choose it for you. —Dale Carnegie (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
