Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity Quotes

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Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creati...

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. Th...

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring.

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the...

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's vo...

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

YOU DON’T KNOW IF YOUR IDEA IS ANY GOOD the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings is not as easy as the optimists say it is. There’s a reason why ...

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity