You can’t really say, visually, any more than you think and you can’t think any more deeply than the sum total of what you read.

—Keith Carter, photographer

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

—Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora” US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 – 1849)

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

—Steve Jobs

Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude.

—Ralph Marston

You don’t learn to be excellent, you learn to work your butt off and do your best in everything. Excellence will be the likely outcome.