Show Your Work! Quotes

“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.” —Derek Sivers There’s”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.” Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“You can turn your flow into stock.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“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

“creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“A lot of people are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome.” —Michael Jackson”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.” —Brian Michael Bendis”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Having your work hated by certain people is a badge of honor.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“many of the people who we think of as lone geniuses were actually part of “a whole scene of people who were supporting each other, looking at each other’s work, copying from each other, stealing ideas, and contributing ideas.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Don’t worry, for now, about how you’ll make money or a career off it. Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. 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

“Like one of his heroes, Tom Waits, whenever Yorke feels like his songwriting is getting too comfortable or stale, he’ll pick up an instrument he doesn’t know how to play and try to write with it. This is yet another trait of amateurs—they’ll use whatever tools they can get their hands on to try to get their ideas into the world. “I’m an artist, man,” said John Lennon. “Give me a tuba, and I’ll get you something out of it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“You can’t count on success; you can only leave open the possibility for it, and be ready to jump on and take the ride when it comes for you.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Don’t be jealous when the people you like do well—celebrate their victory as if it’s your own.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don’t ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face.” —Rob Delaney It”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” —Kenneth Goldsmith “Stock”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“mental scrapbooks form our tastes, and our tastes influence our work.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Don’t show your lunch or your latte; show your work.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

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― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Keep your own list, or get an account with an email newsletter company like MailChimp and put a little sign-up widget on every page of your website.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“We all have the opportunity to use our voices, to have our say, but so many of us are wasting it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work effects how they value it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“the only way to find your voice is to use it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Find a scenius, pay attention to what others are sharing, and then start taking note of what they’re not sharing.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“A lot of social media is just about typing into boxes.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The work is all that’s happened in the day. It is a process, not a thing.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered