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quote #5

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

via Elizabeth Cleveland's blog some time ago... but great quotes are immortal, aren't they?

quote # 5

"Everything communicates."

*Jay Chiat

creative inspiration

If you haven't seen Sketches of Frank Gehry, you should. I grabbed this low-quality clip from the DVD by using my digital camera – "low-quality" being the operative word. But I think you can hear the quote. Frank talks about creative inspiration, and that it can come from the most mundane of places. It's all about the way you see something.

pic of the day + quote

quote # 4 (Best Pep Talk)

"If you want to enjoy Hawaii, one day you come again and you bring your ungrateful kids and your overweight wife and you bring them all back here. It'll still be here. We're not here for that."

- Former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight during a 1975 tournament in Hawaii, as recounted in the new book Bob Knight: An Unauthorized Biography

quote #3

quote # 2

"If I gave consumers what they were asking for, they would have gotten a faster horse."

- Henry Ford

quote # 1 (definition)

"Please advise: 1.Request for input or information. 2. Common email parlance for, "You go do all the work to get an answer to this question. No touchbacks. 3. Or, when written by a junior employee, indicates, "I've been asking you about this for days/weeks, and I can't do anything until you tell me what you want, so tell me already.' " 

- From The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk, by Lois Beckwith