Always desire to learn something useful.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
You never know what motivates you.
Know or listen to those who know.
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.