Control

"I don’t want everything to be just the way I want it. I want my life to be the way it’s meant to be, how it has the boundless, unimaginable potential to be."

-Kellie

Create

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
-Ira Glass, Storyteller, via American Aquarium Drinker, via Ira Glass

Art

"The words we choose reflect our mindsets and establish our connections to our physical and social environments.” 
-Jeff Lambson (BYU curator of this exhibit)

Frames

"Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created."
-Albert Einstein

memory

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Inside

Jesus said, “If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.”

She explains further, “The truth of your experience can only come through in your own voice. If it is wrapped in someone else’s voice, we readers will feel suspicious, as if you are dressed up in someone else’s clothes” (195).
-Ann Lamott Bird by Bird

Little

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is amy chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
-Helen Keller