Advice for all souls—not just those in the creative fields

Cecil Beaton’s 1927 self-portrait, property of the National Portrait Gallery in London (visit online at http://www.npg.org.uk/home.php

Cecil Beaton, the great photographer and designer known especially for his fashion work for the theater and movie business, once said, “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”