12 Lines of Inspiration for Twenty12

I’m going to come at ya with a bunch of quotes!

I’ve been reading “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss and it’s making me think of you guys, especially as I come across all these amazingly inspiring words of wisdom.  So as we venture into 2012, here are a dozen little peps to put in your steps!

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.” – Bill Cosby

“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” – John F. Kennedy

“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure; try to please everybody all the time.” – Herbert Bayard Swope (American editor and journalist, first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize)

“Everything popular is wrong.” – Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“Life is too short to be small.” – Benjamin Disraeli

Think of these as you continue your wonderful careers as artists.  How do they apply to you in terms of your artistic endeavors?  Do you have any you can share with the rest of us?  Make sure they make you feel like this:

(Taken at the summit of Mount Jo in the Adirondack Mountains of New York on New Years Day 2012.  That’s me in the checkered jacket!)

Onwards and Upwards,