30 Drawings of April, week 1

Day 1

“I think it’s about time we vote for people with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.”

Drawn 4/16/2012


Day 2

“Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.”

This has been me too many times in my life. I rationalized it as an opportunity when it was just me being drawn to what I desired. Of course, both things can be true at the same time but even if it is an opportunity you might miss it if you are focused on the short term fulfillment of your desire. The long game is the hardest game to play.

Drawn 4/14/2016


Day 3

“If you want to kill a good idea, get a committee working on it.

Drawn 4/28/2016


Day 4

“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

Drawn 4/12/2011


Day 5

“Don’t let imaginary dangers inflict real wounds.”

Drawn 4/14/2015


Day 6

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”

Drawn 4/27/2009


Day 7

“You can be misunderstood once. After that, you are just communicating poorly.”


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31 Drawings of March, week 4

Day 22

“Perfectionish doesn’t believe in improvement.”

Drawn 3/22/2012


Day 23

“The best way out is always through.”

Drawn 3/22/2013


Day 24

“Imagine walking a mile in someone else’s headlines.”

Drawn 3/24/2015


Day 25

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

Drawn 3/25/2009


Day 26

“Respect my existence or expect my resistance.”

Drawn 3/24/2021


Day 27

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

Drawn 3/27/2014


Day 28

“We shape clay into a pot but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”

Drawn on 3/9/2011


Day 29

“yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”

Drawn on 3/24/2016


Day 30

“He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” – MLK, Jr.

drawn 3/6/2001


Day 31

“Research is what we are doing when we don’t know what we are doing.”

Drawn 3/31/2014


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31 Drawings of March, week 3

Day 15

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

Drawn 3/15/2011


Day 16

“When calamity has been suffered, remember first how much has escaped.”

Drawn 3/16/2011


Day 17

“Few women admit their age, few men act theirs.”

Drawn 3/17/2013


Day 18

“What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs.”

Drawn 3/18/2011


Day 19

“If you are naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don’t like.”

Drawn 3/18/2014


Day 20

“They say nobody’s perfect then they say practice makes perfect. I wish they would make up their mind.”

Drawn 3/20/2012


Day 21

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it it brings others.”

Drawing 3/21/2012


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31 Drawings of March, week 2

Day 8

“People who change the world have declared independence from other people’s expectations.”

Drawn 3/8/2016


Day 9

“Once you label me, you negate me.”

Drawn 3/9/2015


Day 10

“Definitions belong to the definer, not the defined.”

Drawn 3/11/2014


Day 11

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

Drawn 3/11/2013


Day 12

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

Drawn 3/12/2001


Day 13

“Simplicity is less thoughts, not less thinking.”

Drawn 3/13/2014


Day 14

“Calamity is the great leveler.”

The napkin drawing is an interpretation of Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ from 36 views of Mt. Fuji – woodblock print, 1831

Drawn 3/14/2011

31 Drawings of March

Day 1

“No human chooses evil because it is evil, they just mistake it for happiness.”

Drawn 3/1/2017


Day 2

“Only a fool tests the waters with both feet.”

Drawn 3/2/2011


Day 3

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”

Drawn 3/3/2017


Day 4

“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.”

Drawn 3/4/2011


Day 5

“Flatterers look like friends as wolves look like dogs.”

Drawn 3/5/2013


Day 6

“there is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

Drawn 3/5/2013


Day 7

“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, then give up thinking what is charming.”

Drawn 3/4/2013


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