“And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.” Keith Richards
If you want to realize all the possibilities that are you it can’t be done by staying where you are physically, mentally and emotionally. You have to brave the unexplored and know it for the first time. You have to step across the line of familiarity and find yourself in the unfamiliar and infinite world of who you can be. =================================================
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“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” John Ruskin, leading English art critic of the Victorian era as well as an art patron, watercolourist, prominent social thinker, philanthropist and one of the great visionaries of the 19th century.
“I do not dream at night. I dream all day. I dream for a living.” American director, producer, and screenwriter Steven Spielberg
“You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.” Van Morrison
“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern business.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” American essayist, poet, philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau