All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
Be stimulated by rejection
I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
The position you hold and the work you are now doing.