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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.

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

– Brian Tracy

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Indira Ghandi

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

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

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

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

– Christopher Morley

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

– Steve Jobs

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Carl Rogers

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Charles Darwin

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Hindu Proverb