Every October, artists, doodlers, sketchers, etchers and scribblers participate in the Inktober challenge, wherein they are tasked to draw and disseminate at least one image per day. Challenge accepted….here are the black and white versions of my October drawings. Enjoy! The colorized versions of these are peppered throughout my previous posts. October is also conflict resolution month. I love it when a plan comes together.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. — Johnny Cash
In any negotiation, “no” is just the beginning of the conversation. — Raymond Shonholtz
Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. — Alice Walker
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer
Everybody’s screwed up in their own special way. — Joey Ramone
You make make a fresh start with your final breath. — Bertolt Brecht
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions. — Jane Goodall
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. –Isaac Asimov
When we really see each other, we want to help each other. — Amanda Palmer
You got to look on the bright side. Even if there ain’t one. — Dashiell Hammet
Walls turned sideways are bridges. — Angela Davis
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement. — Vincent Price
Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. — Alan Alda
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. — Albert Einstein
We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming. — Bob Dylan
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. — Marie Curie
I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones. — John Cage
Be curious, not judgmental. — Walt Whitman
Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. — Diane Arbus
If you are embarrassed because you have some notion about hos some men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do. — Ray Bradbury
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, feed him for a lifetime. But first of all, check if he likes fish. — Dusan Ondrusek
This will be our reply to violence — to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever. — Leonard Bernstein
When brothers fight to death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate. — Chinua Achebe
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It must be exhausting. — Nick Cave
Everybody gets so much information all day long, that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein
The more tense you are, the less you can hear. — Yo-Yo Ma
There is room for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The world needs al types of minds. — Temple Grandin
When they tell you to grow up they mean stop growing. — Tim Robbins
All generalizations are false, including this one. — Mark Twain
To hear, one must be silent. — Ursula K. Le Guin
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky
The first problem for all of us, men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities. — Ray Charles
Listen, wait, and be patient. — Ken Kesey
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves. — Satyajit Ray
You can’t censor people’s dreams. — Robyn Hitchcock
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is part of thought. — Oliver Sacks
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not all the time. — George Orwell
Everybody’s like everybody else, and everybody’s different from everybody else. — Harvey Pekar
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. — Anais Nin
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov
Making the simple complicated is commonplace, Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. — Jimmy Carter
Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of as an opportunity. — Michael K. Williams
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. — Mel Brooks
Working with other people just makes you smarter. — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Everything we see hides another thing. We always want to see what is hidden by what we see. — Rene Magritte
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. — Gustav Mahler
Don’t wait for a Gandhi, don’t wait for a King, don’t wait for a Mandela. You are your own Gandhi, you are your own King. — Leymah Gbowee
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. — Indira Gandhi
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. — Milan Kundera
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Nice guys finish first. If you don’t know that, then you don’t know where the finish line is. — Garry Shandling
To be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on other side of the table has in mind. — Madeleine Albright
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. — Stephen Hawking
Try to love someone you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds do deeply within you, you cannot believe it. — Margaret Cho
I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused. — Elvis Costello
I can’t judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself. — Cyndi Lauper
People protect what they love. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Recognize yourself in others. — Nadine Gordimer
The most sophisticated people I know, inside they’re all children. — Jim Henson
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. — Lily Tomlin
Anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. — David Lynch
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. — Bertrand Russell
Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton
Forgiveness is giving up on the idea of a better past. — William Faulkner (note: this quote has been attribute to various authors!)
There can be mercy in the midst of misery. — Cynthia Hopkins
I think everybody should be nice to everybody. — Andy Warhol
Life always offers a second chance. It’s called tomorrow. — Dylan Thomas
If anyone tells you there is only one way…get as far away from them as possible. –Jim Jarmusch (…or try mediating — Brad.)
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. — Leonardo Da Vinci
It takes a long time to become young. — Pablo Picasso
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