Wait for inspiration to find you
~ 16 April 2007 ~
Susan L. Smith, Associate Designer, in HOW Magazine, April 2007:
The more I accept that inspiration is elusive, the less I go looking and the more I simply wait for it to find me. Sometimes, we look so hard for something that we miss it. So I’m learning to be OK with the unanswered and the unpredictable and the inconsistent. I’ve realized that sometimes asking questions is more inspiring than having all the answers.
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