The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
It's always too early to quit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.