Quotes: Albert Einstein

"Nothing happens until something moves."

–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 26.

Quotes: Wilt Chamberlain

"Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing." 

–– Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), American basketball player 

Source: Nitch.com

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 39. 

Quotes: Gertrude Stein

"Strip everything away to the minimum. When you start over, leave only what is truly needed."

–– Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer 

Source: Judy's Journal blog (Judy Martin), Monday November 25, 2019.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 38. 

Quotes: Marcus Aurelius

"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live." 

–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher 

Source: Marcus Aurelius. Meditations.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 38. 

Quotes: Ben Hogan

"Every day you don't practice you're one day further from being good." 

–– Ben Hogan (1912-1997), American professional golfer 

Source: Twyla Tharp. The Creative Habit, p. 32. 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 38. 

Quotes: Lance Letscher

""My work is really slow and repetitive. ... You have to go through almost excruciating boredom to be spontaneous and creative, to get to a place where the work really flows." For eight hours a day he combines experience and improvisation, As he described the process to an interviewer in 2004, "It is mysterious in a mundane way.""

–– Lance Letscher (b. 1962), American collage artist and Charles Dee Mitchell

Source: Lance Letscher Collage. Introduction by Charles Dee Mitchell. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2009, p. 6.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 36. 

Quotes: Joan Didion

"I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything ... but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day."

–– Joan Didion (1934-2021), American writer  

Source: Nitch.com, 2020

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 37. 

Quotes: Gretchen Rubin

"What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while." 

–– Gretchen Rubin (b. 1965), American author and speaker 

Source: Outer Order, Inner Calm. New York: Harmony Books, 2019, p. 155.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 37. 

Quotes: Seneca

"Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life's account every day. ... One who daily puts the finishing touches to his life is never in want of time."

–– Seneca (4 BC - AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman 

Source: Seneca. Moral Letters to Lucilius via Ryder Carroll. The Bullet Journal Method.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 36. 

Quotes: Ian Brown

"Ninety per cent of talent is confidence, an absence of judgement that feeds a willingness to fail that produces a greater likelihood of success." 

–– Ian Brown (b. 1954), Canadian journalist and author 

Source: Ian Brown. "Old skier, new tricks." The Globe and Mail, Saturday January 5, 2019, p.10-11; p. 11.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 35. 

Quotes: Mary Oliver

"I think we're creative all day long. We have to have an appointment to have that work out on the page. Because the creative part of us gets tired of waiting, or just gets tired."

–– Mary Oliver (1935-2019), American poet 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 35 

Quotes: Marie Curie

"There is nothing in life to fear, just to understand." 

–– Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish-born French physicist and chemist

Quotes: Meister Eckhart

"Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it."

–– Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), German Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mystic 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 33. 

Quotes: Rob Brezsny

"Here's another way to get on life's good side: cultivate duties that consistently encourage you to act out of love and joy rather than out of guilt and obligation." 

–– Rob Breszny, American astrologer, writer, and musician 

Source: Rob Brezsny. Free Will Astrology. January 13, 2019, Cancer.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 32. 

Quotes: Mignon McLaughlin

"Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference." 

–– Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983), American journalist and author 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 27.

Quotes: Old adage

"Well begun is half done." 

–– Old adage

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 26.

Quotes: William Hutchinson Murray

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too." 

–– W. H. Murray (1913-1996), Scottish mountaineer, writer, and soldier 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 25.

Quotes: Albert Einstein

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 25.

Quotes: Samuel Johnson

"Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms." 

–– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 23.

Quotes: Rūmī

"If all you can do is crawl, start crawling."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

 via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 23.

Quotes: Unknown

"Where the attention is, that becomes lively." 

–– unknown 

Source: David Lynch. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006. 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 21.

Quotes: Yo-Yo Ma

"It's actually not painful to learn something, if you do it incrementally." 

–– Yo-Yo Ma (b. 1955), French-born, American cellist 

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 21.

Quotes: Pearl S. Buck

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."

–– Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer 

Quotes: Anonymous

"The tragedy of life is not that it is so short... But that we take so long to begin living it." 

–– Anonymous 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001, unpaginated.

Quotes: Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world."

–– Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), Albanian-born Indian Roman Catholic nun 

Quotes: Steve Martin

"Comedy is tragedy plus time." 

–– Steve Martin (b. 1945), American comedian, actor, musician and writer 

via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 26.

Quotes: Tim Keller

"Aesthetics is a movement from the right brain to the left. Consequently, art is often a back door to the truth." 

–– Tim Keller (b. 1950), American pastor, theologian and author 

via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 21.

Quotes: unknown

"Where you look is where you'll go." 

–– unknown

Quotes: Lynda Barry

"The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from." 

–– Lynda Barry (b. 1956), American cartoonist, author, educator 

Source: Austin Kleon tumblr, June 13, 2016. 

via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 30.

Quotes: Beau Taplin

"The best thing about bravery is even a little is enough." 

–– Beau Taplin, Australian author

Source: Instagram: Flo and Frank 

via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 20.

Quotes: unknown

"It doesn't matter how slowly you go, as long as you don't stop." 

–– unknown

Source: Instagram Flo and Frank

via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 20.