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Alece Birnbach, Graphic Recording Studio

COLUMN = PRESENTATIONS

The founder of the Graphic Recording Studio, Alece Birnbach brings experience as an illustrator, fine artist, and advertising expert to her company, which is hired by the Fortune 100 to craft graphic recordings at their conferences, workshops, and proprietary meetings.

Her unique combination of skills and experience gives Alece the unique ability to listen differently to what clients need and to draw out (literally!) their ideas always with sustainable outcomes in mind.

“Alece’s graphic recordings and in-studio vision mapping will take your breath away,” says one of her top clients.

Decide for yourself. To learn more about Alece Birnbach’s Graphic Recording Studio, visit www.graphicrecordingstudio.com. And check out her popular commercial artwork at alecebirnbach.com.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare