Cultivate Inspiration
When bringing new ideas to life, mindset is often half the battle. Studies show that individuals and teams with a positive outlook are more innovative, productive, and generate better ideas and products. These quotes focus on optimism, aiming higher, and the creative process.
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
“Action is the fundamental key to all success.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
“The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.”
“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. The present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.”
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.”
“All greatness comes from suffering.”
“Escape competition through authenticity.”
“When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.”
“An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer.”
“The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.”
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and reach it.”
"Three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
“Problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
“It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
“Chance favors the connected mind.”
“Success is not given. Success is earned.”
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
“Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.”
“There are no miracles. There is only discipline.”
“Without some kind of vision of what you want to achieve, it is unlikely you will notice the specific opportunities that can make it happen.”
“Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.”
“Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever is your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work.”
”Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make, it makes you. Choose wisely.”
“Extreme people get extreme results.”
“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.”
“You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.”
“Design is how you treat your customers.”
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”
“If a thing is done well, no one will ask how long it took to do it, but only, who did it.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”
“Try not to let the voices in your head get in the way.”
“Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.”
“Nothing is ever as bad or as good as it seems.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n”
“Leadership is often about the willingness to piss people off.”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.”
“Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It is a few tricks to the brain.”
“Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It is a few tricks to the brain.”
“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.”
“I have never met a very successful pessimistic person.”
“The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
“Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
“Character is not made of sunshine and roses. Like steel, it is forged in fire, between the hammer and the anvil.”
“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“We do not see the world as the world is, we see the world as we are.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“Good design is as little design as possible”
“You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and in the nick of time.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“Believe that you possess significant reserves of health, energy, and endurance, and your belief will help create the fact.”
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“The world is full of magic things patiently, waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
“If there's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That’s what makes you a winner.”
“Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change, it is the realization that we can.”
“Fortune favors the bold”
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“Fear is the mind killer”
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“You reap what you sow.”
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.”
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
“Is it our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
“Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.”
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
“People by and large become what they think of themselves.”
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.”
“To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right”
“There is always a way if you want it bad enough. Turn over every stone to find a way if it’s important enough to you.”
“The divine guidance often comes when the horizon is the blackest.”
“Opportunity always exists within a crisis situation, but when we lose heart in a devastating crisis, we are blinded by our own emotion. When we can calmly endure the unendurable, the opportunity for a better alternative surfaces and reveals itself.”
“You can't always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“You cannot hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.”
“Discipline is choosing what you want now and what you want most.”
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.”
“When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.”
“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.”
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, then become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, then become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.”
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
”Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”