DESIGN QUOTES

“Design is simple, that’s why it’s so complicated.” - Paul Rand

"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement." -George F. Will

“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just sum everything up.” - Tate Linden

“You don’t fuel good design by just making something beautiful. You respond to what is valued and give it a voice in the mind.” -CD

“Just because you’ve ticked the boxes doesn’t mean you’ve solved the problem.”- Marty Neumier

"The only way we know how to stay innovative is by not applying a stylistic formula to every job, but rather to let the content of the emotion dictate what it looks like." - Kyle Cooper

"We design not the black marks on the page but the spaces in between" - Erik Speikermann (designer/typographer)

"Don’t mistake legibility for communication" - David Carson

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams

"Without good design it is easy to miss the point" - Bjarni Wark

PERSPECTIVE QUOTES

“We set young leaders up for a fall if we encourage them to envision what they can do before they consider the kind of person they should be.” - R. Barton

“We do not have a deep enough resource to live life without God.” -Gregg Matte 

“The quality of your life will be judged by persistent faithfulness more than momentary brilliance.” – Ben Stuart

"Keeping understanding is harder than getting knowledge." -Todd Wagner

“Part of a soldier’s duty is to fill gaps…one must willing to be something, as nothing.” - Amy Carmichael

“Little did Abraham know that while he hiking up one side of the mountain, God was bringing His solution up the other side.” - Tony Evans

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar" - Helen Keller

“Invariably the newly learned, like the newly rich overdo everything.” -Tozer 

"Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still." -Buchanan

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.” - Elisabeth Elliot

"Until you are around people who bring out the worst in you, you are not in the position for God to bring out the best in you." - Beth Moore

“If I neglect my family to further my church, eventually I’ll neglect my church to further my ministry.” – Todd Wagner 

“The hope of glory is not me schooled but me surrendered.” -Todd Wagner

“Leadership is a stewardship. It’s temporary and you’re accountable.” – Andy Stanley

“You vote with your feet.” – Gary Stroope

“Serve in small things. Serve in hidden things. Serve in costly things. Serve by listening. Serve by being served. Serve beyond “gifting.” - Brian Fisher

“Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.” – Oswald Chambers 

“That which threatens you is under the command of One who loves you.” -Todd Wagner

“Always live better than you preach.” – Gregg Matte

“There was once an elephant standing on the peak of a mountain looking at the view of another mountain in the distance. The elephant wondered how he could ever make it down this mountain and up to the next. He kept wondering how such a big animal could be fit enough to do it. So he waited and waited. What he never realized was that the impossibility of what lay ahead was no different than the impossibility of how he had gotten to the peak of his own mountain in the first place.” -CD

"...you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe." - 1 Thess. 2:13b

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt