"A cautious creative is an oxymoron."

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Source : "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.

George Lois

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“In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.”

Source : Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”
“Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.”
“The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn`t like.”
“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.”
“Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.”

Source : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1976). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”
“Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.”
“Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.”
“Do the dead frighten you?”

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