A Break From The Norm

One thing that I have always loved to read are quotes. To change things up I've collected a few about some of my favorite subjects...design, running and laughter.

I hope you find them both inspirational and entertaining.
Enjoy!


Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
-David Hockney

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau

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

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
-Christopher Zeeman

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
-Paul Rand

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
-David Carson

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.
-Tibor Kalman

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
-Edith Head

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
-William Morris

"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."
- Tom Fleming's Boston Marathon training sign on his wall

"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"
- Peter Maher, Irish-Canadian Olympian and sub-2:12 marathoner

"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."
- Emil Zatopek

"The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon."
- Rob de Castella


The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~e.e. cummings

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~Irish Proverb

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
~Max Eastman

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.
~Author Unknown

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
-Voltaire

If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it.
-Beyonce




Work Hard-Play Harder-Laugh the Hardest