Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.