Hische Quotes

#1. The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life. - Jessica Hische

Austin Kleon

#2. There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

Abby Sunderland

#3. I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I do lettering and illustration for money, which clients don't mess with too much and web design for fun.

Jessica Hische

#4. I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

J.J. Abrams

#5. Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.

Eve Ensler

#6. When I have to critique someone else's web design, rather than write up a giant email or take a screengrab and move stuff around in Photoshop, I put together a really quick CSS doc making my changes.

Jessica Hische

#7. Every new thing you make will be (should be) the nicest thing you've made so far, because you're learning and getting better with each and every new project.

Jessica Hische

#8. Learning is the making of meaning.

Robert Kegan

#9. Web design is something that's super technical but can be super tedious if you have to deal with asshole clients.

Jessica Hische

#10. But sometimes you need to go get coffee more than you actually need coffee.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#11. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

Laurie Perez

#12. If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that.

Jessica Hische

#13. Amoeba ass is so hot.

Tao Lin

#14. The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your mistakes. There are sophomore mistakes that people do at the beginning that you spot everywhere. For example, a lot of people make 'W's by turning 'M's upside down.

Jessica Hische

#15. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.

Jessica Hische

#16. To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

Jessica Hische

#17. Before I eat your bagel, we should be formally introduced, don't you think?

Alice Clayton

#18. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#19. I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.

Jessica Hische

#20. It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Kathleen Parker

#21. There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.

Paula Reed

#22. Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision."
"You wouldn't have done it, I bet."
"That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.

Veronica Roth