“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.“
– Paulo Coelho (1947 – present)
Nothing worse than a hitman with unfulfilled dreams and aspirations. Makes you bad at your job.
I don’t know. Sometimes it is just fun to pair an inspirational quote with an image that one might not initially think should go together. Or maybe they DO go together!
Perhaps the average hitman has dreams of being at the top of his game, right? Or maybe he has an unfulfilled aspiration to leave his dirty work behind and become a primo ballerino. Who knows?
Whatever YOU choose in life, knock ’em dead! (Figuratively speaking if you are not a hitman.)
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.“
– Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
The bear’s success comes at the price of the fish’s unknowing leap of failure. Perhaps not the intent of the quote, but certainly a truth from it.
Sometimes when I do these Drawn & Quoted pieces, I find a quote and do a drawing based on it. This time the drawing came first (ink in my sketchbook), then the search for a matching quote came after, which is usually the tougher way to go about it. I saw this image as having possible business applications, and started looking at quotes with that in mind. I also thoroughly enjoy utter silliness, so when this quote surfaced (pun intended), it made me laugh in the context of the drawing.
Why? Because the quote probably was meant to inspire someone to greatness by having them not be afraid to try something. However, it seemed to fit perfectly the goals and achievements of these two characters as they both attempted their goals in tandem. The bear achieved success at the price of the fish’s failure. Funny, right? Pain is often funny.
“Okay campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties because it’s COLD out there today! It’s cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?!”
“That’s right woodchuck chuckers, it’s GROUNDHOG DAY!!!”
– Radio announcers in the movie Groundhog Day (1993)
“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
– Yogi Berra (1925 – 2015)
Old coaches never die, they just change teams.
Today happens to be the one-year anniversary of the death of baseball’s beloved, Yogi Berra. I was a kid from Jersey who was a huge Yankees fan, and I seem to remember that not far from where I lived, Yogi Berra owned a fitness club with racquetball. I always loved racquetball, but by the time I got a driver’s license and could seek it out, I moved out of state. Ah well.
This drawing, however, is NOT of good ol’ Yogi. I just felt that if an old baseball coach was being posted for a Drawn & Quoted post, who better to quote than the most quotable old baseball player. Yogi was the natural choice.
I like the nostalgia of baseball. I used to play in high school, and still have a love for baseball despite not keeping up with the current status of the game. Old photos of America’s pastime, and even better, illustrations that immortalize the essence of the sport from days gone by always make me recall the smell of the glove, the buzzing of the bugs, and the wafting scent of freshly cut grass from my position in the outfield.
I was doodling in my sketchbook the other day, and as this face emerged, it just made me think of an old, grizzled baseball coach, wise beyond his years with the science, psyche, and feel of the game, so the hat and suggestion of a uniform were added.
