Show Your Work! Quotes

“That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” —Charlie Chaplin”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“in this day and age, if your work isn’t online, it doesn’t exist. We all have the opportunity to use our voices, to have our say, but so many of us are wasting it. If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.”
― 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

“Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Books are made out of books.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Follow me back?” is the saddest question on the Internet.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“There’s an intuition that you only gain through the repetition of practice.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Don’t Go Back to School”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough,” writes author Alain de Botton.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“picked up in art school was learning how to take a punch. He and his fellow classmates were absolutely brutal during critiques. “We were basically trying to see if we could get each other to drop out of school.” Those vicious critiques taught him not to take criticism personally.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“We’re always being told find your voice. When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry a lot about voice, wondering if I had my own. 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.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“La creatividad es siempre, en cierto sentido el resultado de una mente conectada a otras mentes.
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― Austin Kleon ​, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act,” writes Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“When you get rid of old material, you push yourself further and come up with something better.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“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.” —Steve Jobs If”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“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

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

“When you teach someone how to do your work, you are, in effect, generating more interest in your work.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Make people better at something they want to be better at.” Teaching”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.” —John Cleese”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“You get a great idea, you go through the hard work of executing the idea, and then you release the idea out into the world, coming to a win, lose, or draw.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur’s spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“In my experience, your stock is best made by collecting, organizing, and expanding upon your flow.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act,”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Disconnect from anything and everything electronic.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Comments outnumber ideas.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Relax and breathe. The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. Bad criticism is not the end of the world. As far as I know, no one has ever died from a bad review. Take a deep breath and accept whatever comes.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“That’s why it’s important to get things in front of others and see how they react.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Film critic Tommy Edison, who’s been blind since birth, takes photos of his day-to-day life and posts them to Instagram under @blindfilmcritic. He’s followed by more than 30,000 people!”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered