“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” - WALT WHITMAN***
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” - SALVADOR DALÍ
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” - OPRAH WINFREY
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” - VINCE LOMBARDI
“I still struggle with the same problems as ten years ago. I succeed in small matters but the real goal remains unattainable, even though it sometimes seems palpably close. It is hard, yet rewarding: hard because the goal is beyond my abilities, but rewarding because it makes one oblivious to the distractions of everyday life.” - ALBERT EINSTEIN
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” - ARTHUR ASHE
“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.” - MAYA ANGELOU
“When you are offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t waste time asking what seat it is, simply get on!” - SHERYL SANDBERG
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” - BEVERLY SILLS
“The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” - JAMES BALDWIN“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” - NAPOLEON HILL
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” - GUSTAV KLIMT
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” - MICHAEL JOHN BOBAK