theworkshop’s most recent Quotables

The drive-by technorati are well-informed, curious and always probing. They’re also hiding… hiding from the real work of creating work that matters, connections with impact and art that lasts. I love to hear about the next big thing, but I’m far more interested in what you’re doing with the old big thing.

On the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York and so on... conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than Man for precisely the same reasons.

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be: your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our actions, as we who are downstream will profit from the grantor's gif

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers. The round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery

We are what we repeatedly do.

The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.

Dare to risk public criticism.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.