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Alece Birnbach, Graphic Recording Studio

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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.

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

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

– Zig Ziglar

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"

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Tony Robbins

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Jack Kerouac

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– William James

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Michelle Sedas

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Erica Jong

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

– Mae West

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Andrew Carnegie

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Indira Ghandi

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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 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

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

– Brian Tracy

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– Frederic Nietzsche