Even when you choose the thing that inspires you, the thing you believe in, work with colleagues you learn from, do good work, there’s going to be a level of fear involved. People will have opinions and negative reactions. But that fear means it’s worth it.Liz Danzico , Confidence for good

When things go perfectly, sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s because your design was perfect or because your design didn’t matter.Jason Fried, Insight: When things go perfectly…

The problem is that you can’t have good ideas unless you’re willing to generate a lot of bad ones.Seth Godin, Fear of bad ideas

It (design) can be informed by the results of analysis, but the tools of analysis don’t create beautiful designs.Patrick Lynch, Visual Decision Making

The grid system places in the hands of the designer no more and no less than a serviceable instrument which makes it possible to create interesting, contrasting and dynamic arrangements of pictures and text but which is in itself no guarantee of successJosef Müller-Brockmann, Grid Systems in Graphic Design

If you are passionate, design should be more fun than other extracurricular activities. Eric Karjalouto

Whatever you’re working on, slow down and do it better. Mark Amos

The only thing worst than starting something and failing… is not starting something.Seth Godin