That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan