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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water

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#2

“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.”
― Paulo Coelho, Like the Flowing River

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#3

“Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

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#4

“What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

tags: armor

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#5

“If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running away from it.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#6

“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. A good example of this is genetics. You have a mother and you have a father. You possess features from both of them, but the sum of you is bigger than their parts. You're a remix of your mom and dad and all of your ancestors.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

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#7

“…Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”
― Jim Jarmusch

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#8

“If you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you'll choke. Instead, chew on one thinker, writer, artist, activist, role model you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker, then find three people that thinker loved and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you climb your own tree, it's time to grow your own branch.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

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#9

“Carry a notebook and pen with you wherever you go. Get used to pulling it out and jotting down your thoughts and observations. Copy your favorite passages out of books. Record overheard conversations. Doodle when you're on the phone. Go to whatever lengths necessary to make sure you always have paper on you.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

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#10

“Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

tags: austin-kleon, steal-like-an-artist

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#11

“When you first get started, there's usually a big gap between what you are and what you want to be. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started being creative, well I'd still 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.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: creative-work, creativity, self-awareness

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#12

“Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

tags: austin-kleon, copying, steal-like-an-artist, style, voice

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#13

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
― Jessica Hische

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#14

“Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want—that just kills creativity.” —Jack White”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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#15

“In this age of information abundance and overload, those who get ahead will be the folks who figure out what to leave out so they can concentrate on what's really important to them. Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities. The idea that you can do anything is absolutely terrifying.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: creativity, focus, ideas, information-age, information-overload

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#16

“It's often what an artist chooses to leave out that makes the art interesting.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: art, artist, creativity

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#17

“The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

tags: creative-block, creativity, freedom, limitations

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#18

“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.”
― Conan O'Brien

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#19

“So: Copy your heroes. Examine where you fall short. What's in there that makes you different? That's what you should amplify and transform into your own work.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: creative-work, creativity, transform

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#20

“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

tags: godard

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#21

“I suspect that God’s plan, whatever it is, works on a scale too large to admit our mortal tribulations; that in a single lifetime, accidents and happenstance determine more than we care to admit; and that the best we can do is to try to align ourselves with what we feel is right and construct some meaning out of our confusion, and with grace and nerve play at each moment the hand that we’re dealt.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

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#22

“Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

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#23

“Share something small every day.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: creativity, share, work

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#24

“Once a day, after you’ve done your day’s work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share. Where you are in your process will determine what that piece is. If you’re in the very early stages, share your influences and what’s inspiring you. If you’re in the middle of executing a project, write about your methods or share works in progress. If you’ve just completed a project, show the final product, share scraps from the cutting-room floor, or write about what you learned.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

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#25

“You find time the same place you find spare change: in the nooks and crannies. You find it in the cracks between the big stuff—your commute, your lunch break, the few hours after your kids go to bed.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: creativity, time, time-management

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#26

“Teach what you know.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: creativity, knowledge, sharing, sharing-knowledge, teaching

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#27

“Be ambitious. Keep yourself busy. Think bigger. Expand your audience. Don't hobble yourself in the name of "keeping it real," or "not selling out." Try new things. If an opportunity comes along that will allow you to do more of the kind of work you want to do, say Yes. If an opportunity comes long that would mean more money, but less of the kind of work you want to do, say No.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

tags: austin-kleon, show-your-work

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#28

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

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#29

“You do not need to have an extraordinary life to make extraordinary work.”
― Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

tags: creativity, extraordinary, extraordinary-life, life, work

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#30

“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass.”
― May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

tags: change, grief, letting-go, loss, nature, pain, renewal, suffering, survival, trees

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