Create or Improve?

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? - Peter McWilliams


There are those who create and those who fix. You choose.

You're Hired

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. - Steve Jobs


No matter how pretty it is if it doesn't work, it's crap. If it works like a dream but is ugly, it is just ugly. If it is pretty and works, hire 'em.

Following the Leader

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer


Any crackpot can raise a following of a bunch of crackpots.

Fire!

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. - Thomas Jefferson


Blame is a leisure time activity not a game-time strategy.

Excess is Good

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. - Kahlil Gibran


I've never understood this "balance" in life thing myself.

Choosing Genres

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman


Explains my taste in movies exactly.

Risky Business

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. - Wilson Mizner


True, but recognize the difference between risk and gamble.

Priorities

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. - Harold B. Lee


Prioritize.

Creating Self

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz


Good or bad.

Tell Me About Your Future

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. - Chuck Palahniuk


Add that to your job interview repertoire.