Finish On a Miss

Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali 

The perfection of art is to conceal art. Quintilian

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The Real 4-Letter Words

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” John C. Maxwell

“Remember that you get in life what you tolerate.” Darren Hardy

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Create Your Own Dictionary

“Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.” John Ralston Saul 

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” Buddha

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Project: Re-Up

“There’s a reason that ‘recycling’ comes last in the mantra: Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle.” ~ Annie Leonard by way of Patagonia Common Threads Initiative

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Project: Graphically Speaking

“Take that first step. Celebrate that first step. Love the step, not the destination. That step, even the motion of taking the first foot off the ground and moving it forward — that’s everything.”

Leo Babauta

Project: Graphically Speaking

The EPA estimates that the average person throws away 70 lbs of clothing per year. That adds up to 3.8 billion pounds of unnecessary waste added to our landfills.

Project: Clear Folders

I think there is something nice about sharing an entire folder rather than just a presentation file when looking to collaborate on an idea. It’s kind of like spending a day with someone versus exchanging business cards.

Here are a couple of good quotes that touch on some of the fears and benefits that are common when it comes to sharing ideas:

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. Howard Aiken

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” George Bernard Shaw

A half-baked idea is okay as long as it’s in the oven. Unknown

Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you. Do not covet your ideas! Paul Arden

“I understand that we’re smarter than me. That’s one reason I like the idea of sharing.” Toba Beta

Project: Variety of Apps

More info / Wanna collaborate: Email or @ryan_vanderbilt