If you really want to get to know more about Renee Halgerson and Copper Ink Wedding Designs, these 15 phrases sum up JUST about everything that motivates me. And how can I say it better than the originals who said it best? Here we go:
1. On design: "It’s the art in design that touches hearts. It’s the art in design that brings joy; it’s the art in design that moves us to take action." --AIGA Conference
2. On thinking big: "Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them." --John Elliott
3. On travelling: "Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." --Leo Burnett
4. On volunteering: "All business is personal, so make your friends before you need them." --Robert L. Johnson
5. On mini-vacations: "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen." --Leonardo da Vinci (I also credit this one to some of the best advice I ever got from my mother.)
6. On doing the right thing: “Customer service is a form of marketing that is much more powerful that advertising. Advertising builds awareness; customer service creates evangelists." --Seth Godin
7. On leadership: "Leadership is about self-awareness, recognizing your failings, and developing modesty, humility, and humanity." --C.K. Prahalad
8. On listening and communication: "It's fine (oftentimes good) if some people dislike you or disagree with you, but no one should misunderstand you. Everything you say should be clear." --Tim Ferriss, author of "The 4-Hour Workweek,"
9. On doing more than necessary: “Accept not the prescriptions of the world. Otherwise you allow your life get eaten up by the incompatible expectations of people who don’t matter. Casual effort isn’t sufficient.” --Scott Ginsberg
10. On staying busy: “Remember: When you stay insatiably proactive in occupying your mind, body and spirit with activities you enjoy, misery has no choice but to stand in line and wait.” --Scott Ginsberg
11. On friends: "Did you know that the people who love you want nothing more than the opportunity to show you how much they love you? Believe it. That’s why they signed up in the first place: To be a source of support. I’m talking about your real friends:
The people who know who you really are.
The people who will gladly sit with you in companionable silence.
The people who will enthusiastically carry you to the other side of the wall.
The people who will reflect the best, highest version of who you are.
The people who, if you called them at two in the morning, would answer the phone with, “Are you okay?” and not, “Do you know how late it is?” --Scott Ginsberg
12. On the unexpected things in life: "Until you fall, until your expectations are dashed, until you didn’t know how to get out of a situation and you had to figure something out, until you went to sleep at night crying over something — whatever it is — you don’t get the best of yourself until you’ve overcome something." --Anne Berkowitch
13. On why I shouldn't give up: "You need a lot of passion for what you're doing because it's so hard. Without passion, any rational person would give up." --Steve Jobs
14. On why I still write hand-written cards: "Make time for the people in your life. Unlike great ideas, people expire." --Joshua Hays
15. On being a woman: "Anyone can give up. It's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart--that's true strength." --Anonymous