Make it a policy to know your net worth to the penny.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.
I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.
Another immigration reform involves new screening tests for all applicants that include - and this is so important, especially if you get the right people, and we will get the right people - an ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people!