VIEW

"When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen."

-STEPHEN COVE-

SOFT WATERS

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

-JOHN LUBBOCK-

MOLDING THE FUTURE

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

-DENIS WAITLEY-

LET GROW

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

-JOHN LENNON-

THROUGH THE HOURS OF THE NIGHT

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

-E. E. CUMMINGS-

A DESERTED SUNSET

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

-JOHN RUSKIN-

TIRE

"I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire."

-ROY ORBISON-

Texas A&M University At Night

 

"People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far."

-TIGER WOODS-

CHARACTER

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN-

PERCEPTION

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."

-ALDOUS HUXLEY-

THROUGH A BROKEN WINDOW

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

-RONALD REAGAN-

FILM

"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."

-NIKLAS ZENNSTROM-

SEED

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."

-LAO TZU-

SHAPING THE FUTURE

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

-ALBERT ELLIS-

YOU CAN CHECK-OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE

"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."

 

-GERARD WAY-

CENTRAL TEXAS SUMMER

"We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it."

-WILLIE NELSON-

LANGFORD ARCHITECTURE CENTER

"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."

-DANIEL LIBESKIND-

BOLTS

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

-JOHN CIARDI-

MUSHROOMS

"In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types."

-TERENCE McKENNA-

MILITARY WALK

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

-ARISTOTLE-

YELLOW

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

-PABLO PICASSO- 

DREAMER

"There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it."

-TOM DeLONGE-

DIRECTION

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

-LAO TZU-

LEFTOVERS

"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."

-JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GEOTHE-

THE CORPS

“Give me an army of West Point graduates, I’ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war!” 

-GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR-

INSIGHT

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

-DEEPAK CHOPRA-

OIL

"A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water."

-JAMES BUCHAN-

GROWING THROUGH THE MIRROR

 

"The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included."

-BODHIDHARMA-

SUN RADIO

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

-GILBERT K. CHESTERTON-

TIME TO JET

"Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand."

-ROBERT G. ALLEN-