Jennifer Moss Quotes

I’m not a religious person but I find something bigger than myself and something inspiriting in nature. I see connections – the same patterns that are on a microscopic scale are on a macroscopic scale, and the way the world has organized itself into these super-efficient and beautiful patterns. I love reading science books about physics and nature and learning amazing little details about the natural world. My first instinct as an artist is to be representational, but if I abstract my work, it pulls the viewer to spend a little more time with it.”

That's something I value in a leader — somebody who has heart. They have their heart in it, and they care while still being consistent, strong and business-oriented. That's hugely valuable to me in every single way. And that's how I want to show up at that table and every other table that has an opportunity for growth, anywhere, in any industry, in any room.”

I wanted to chase serial killers like they do on the Criminal Minds television show. I was really into that because I competed in speech in high school, and one of my topics was DNA profiling and criminal profiling,

Mom and dad never forced us to look at horticulture,' she says. 'That's why my brother and I have degrees in different areas. And dad said, 'I want you to go out into the world and try something else. And if you want to come back to the greenhouse, then you can. But you have to want to come back. It wasn't forced.

Leaders are sort of looking to move on,” she said. “There's been some great things that have happened – flexibility and remote work and more conversations around mental health in the workplace, destigmatizing burnout … huge investments made in mental health and wellbeing, but we're still feeling like they're not being actualized at work.”

I've learned that failing forward is the best way to approach it. Failure doesn't disarm me, it doesn't scare me. I tell my employees that if you don't fail forward, the universe will continue to bring you that lesson and it will get harder and harder every time. So when something bad happens, don't ask, 'Why did this happen to me?' Ask, 'Why is this happening for me?'

That has been a really hard lesson, though,' she says. 'I had FOMO — fear of missing out. I wanted to be in all places and all things. But that's not the case anymore. I know where I stand as a human. I know what I want to show up for, and I know how much currency I have in the tank to be able to accomplish things.

I do not like the status quo. I am a person who holds space for everyone and I don’t make judgments,”

I tackle hard things. And if it's really hard, I just dig my feet in a little bit deeper so that I'm completely anchored. I'm not afraid to do hard things at all,

I took a papermaking workshop at Penland last summer and have been making embossed panels out of paper pulp. It's all recycled computer paper and junk mail.

I'm thinking about the stitches' repetitive structures as being an abstraction of the repetitive structures in nature.

My parents felt that I was the good choice for the helm of the ship. My brother and I looked at it and he agreed. And we agreed that we could make this work and he became chief operations officer. My brother is an awesome partner. Where I'm weak, he's strong, and where he's weak, I'm strong. We're a good complement to each other.

Heart-forward means a few things,' she says. 'I can be a caring person and really support your team and your people without being a pushover. It also means that I always want to leave people better than when I found them.

Our offerings as a supplier were very traditional. When we lost King’s Discount Store, it was an opportunity in disguise. We started to change our basket combinations and move away from that flat footprint into more container gardening with more perceived value on the baskets,”

When I got to SCAD and took more weaving classes, I thought back to that experience and decided to explore it more. Using their computer-aided weaving, I started blending low-carbon steel with linen, silk, cotton, and other materials. When the fabric came off the loom, the steel was monochromatic gray, but then I'd wash it in salt water to start the color changing process. That body of work resulted in Transient Structures – her thesis show of huge woven panels of fibers and rusting metal "purposefully designed to fall apart."