QUOTES THAT MAKE YOU THINK

[ajclapp]

I love quotes that have few words but much meaning - The few words that get you thinking and linger on your mind. I was watching a PBS show the other day about a glass artist named Josh Simpson. He said this, "As an artist, it is important to find your comfort zone and then stay out of it." I have not been able to get this out of my mind. I must always reach for something beyond what I have mastered. I do not grow if I am complacent.
Do any of you have a quote that you use to motivate or uplift yourself? Please share them with all of us here at TQS. Betty Ann in sunny Florida

[ajclapp]

When I am doing a lot of "unsewing", my mantra is "anything worth doing is worth doing well!"

Maggie in E. Central Illinois

[PDQuilt]

I have an old newspaper cutting on my bulletin board that says, "you're smart, you'll figure it out" - and I live by that. Also, I got a card from a David Walker course I took several years ago that says "artists who wait for inspiration are wasting their time." That's up on my board too.

[PDQuilt]

Ooo...Betty that was very good. My favorite quote, going over and over in my mind is..

"I have learned that people
will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how
you made them feel."

That just touches my heart!
Debbie SW WA

[PDQuilt]

"We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace." --Peggy Tabor Millin (writer, mentor, speaker)

[shirlm]

Don't die with your music still in you!

[shirlm]

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke

My other favorite and I don't know where I heard it:

"Do the right thing because it's the right thing to do."

JoAnne in southern California

[shirlm]

My best friend's father had a sign in his office:

"It's nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice!"

Maggie in E. Central Illinois

[shirlm]

Ok, I have 2

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." - Willy Wonka

and

Good mothers haves sticky floors, filthy ovens, and happy kids. :-) (wall hanging a friend bought me when I first had kids)

[shirlm]

Whoo Hoo!!! What great quotes.

Proper
Prior
Planning
Prevents
Pitifull
Poor
Performance

Another one of my favorites.

Keep um comin' Betty Ann

[KakeM]

1-Hanging in my kitchen is the following: Welcome to my loose interpretation of clean.

2- Follow your passion...just not so closely you run over it and don't acknowledge it

[KakeM]

Don't know who said it, but:

"That which does not kill you makes you stronger"

Also applicable to unsewing, Maggie!

Kathy B.

[sewengel]

This is a funny quote because I know how to cook and am pretty good at it, but do NOT like to cook.

"I only have a kitchen because it came with the house."

Sharon with a kitchen in CO

[GloriaH]

I like "Poor planning on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part" Don't know where it came from and might even be misquoted.

[Lorchen]

"I only do lighthouse work!"

Lorchen