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101 " No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers. "
― Austin Kleon , Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
102 " Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again. "
― Austin Kleon , Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
103 " And this, too, shall pass away. "
― Austin Kleon , Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
104 " We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. "
105 " Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. "
106 " share. "
107 " Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts. "
108 " What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. "
109 " But now I realize that the only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow. "
110 " Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about. "
111 " Validation is for parking. "
112 " the worst troll is the one that lives in your head. "
113 " Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. You're ready. Start making stuff. "
114 " A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we’re incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve. "
115 " You’ll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money. "
116 " Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities. "
― Austin Kleon
117 " Don’t try to be hip or cool. Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too. "
118 " dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing. "
119 " I think it’s good to have a lot of projects going at once so you can bounce between them. When you get sick of one project, move over to another, and when you’re sick of that one, move back to the project you left. Practice productive procrastination. "
120 " You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again. "