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Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

—Henry VIII (William Shakespeare)

Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar. Traveler, there is no path. The path must be forged as you walk.

—Antonio Machado

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

Pay attention to the details along the way, but in the end it’s all about the big picture.

Simple design, intense content.

—Edward Tufte

Nature gave us two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.

—Epictetus

Lo que importa es cuanto amor ponemos en el trabajo que realizamos. It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

—Madre Teresa

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

—Frederick Douglas

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

—Maya Angelou

Words are not only meaning, but music and magic and power.

—Frederick Beuchner

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

—Helen Keller

Develop a passion for learning.  If you do, you will never cease to grow.

—Anthony D'Angelo

Leap in, get stuck, push through.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he/she grows up.

—Pablo Picasso

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

—Antoine de St Exupery, The Little Prince

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

—Lewis Carroll

Live life in crescendo.

—Stephen R. Covey

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

—Jorge Luis Borges

Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

—Norman Vincent Peale

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

—Robert Frost

Stay curious!

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

—Aristotle

Be. Kind.

Question what you know. Care for those less fortunate. Always ask questions and never stop learning.

Don’t give up, please don’t give way, even if the cold burns, even if fear bites, even if the sun sets, and the wind goes silent, there is still fire in your soul. There is still life in your dreams.

—M. Benedetti

When you doubt your power you give power to your doubt.

Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.

—Carl Sagan

This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

—Antoine de Saint Exupery

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

—John O'Donohue

[W]hatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

You learn by making mistakes! Never give up.

Always believe yourself that you can do it.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Practice like you’ve never won, and perform like you’ve never lost.

—Bernard Asuncion

Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you, no one would believe it.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake—you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

—Adam Osborne

An artist is someone who is capable of unveiling the invisible, not a producer of art objects.  The figure of the artist is very similar to that of the alchemist who transforms base metal into gold; an artist is someone who can put her or himself into a ‘transforming’ dimension. … Art reveals another reality.

—Shirazeh Houshiary

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

—Joseph Chilton Pearce

I share my enthusiasm for and expertise in visual arts with others through my teaching. I encourage students to collaborate by blending their ideas with honest feedback to enhance each other’s creations. By creating a classroom environment where each of us care for and help each other, I foster a supportive relationship among students which helps them become attentive and thoughtful young artists.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

—Aldous Huxley

I think that it is truly possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

—Elon Musk

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

—Helen Keller

Never, ever, ever, ever give up.

—Winston Churchill

If you have a garden and a Library you have everything you need.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

—William Butler Yeats

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Go outside, breathe deeply and take in the beauty that surrounds you.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

—John Muir

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth but has trouble enough of its own.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

—Buddha