He’s in the creativity and self-discovery business. He’s in the finding-your-voice business. He understands that we want to do great work, that there’s a story struggling to speak through us, not just about who we are, but about who our
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“Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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