The Heart To Start Quotes

“We dream of building a fortress when we should be starting with a cottage. We fool ourselves into procrastinating by exaggerating how much time we really need. We create mental blocks by imagining our work will follow a linear progression.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“The only way to become your true self is to find the art inside you and make it real. Your art is the best expression possible of who you really are. You make art when you take your passions, your interests, and even your compassion for others, and combine them to make something uniquely yours.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“The first step to controlling your world is to control your culture…. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. —Chuck Palahniuk”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“There is one final way that we prevent ourselves from starting, and it’s the strongest and most dangerous force of all. It’s perfectionism, and I’m so grateful I was able to overcome it in that moment. As I said, “I’m glad I decided to just jump into it.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“This is the third law of art: Your Ego Fears Your Art. If you start making your art, you’re going to expose your self to discomfort. You’ll have to resist distractions to do the work, you’ll have to struggle through doing work that doesn’t yet meet your standards, and you’ll have to face criticism to make your work better. It’s the ego’s job to protect you from this discomfort.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“All of us who do creative work…," he says, “we get into it because we have good taste…. But there’s a gap – that for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good…. But your taste – the thing that got you into the game – your taste is still killer.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“When we create our art, it’s a process of self-actualization. Your true self is constantly in conflict with the expectations of the world around you. Is it okay to do this? Will this make someone mad? Will I embarrass myself? Will I be stripped of my “best behaved” award?”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“Try to identify what makes your work important to you. It will fuel you when nothing else can.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“each start is important. Each start helped me learn how to make the next start better.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“The right Motivational Judo move for me and David Marquet is a ridiculously easy goal.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“Setting a timer for a short work session is just one potential Motivational Judo move.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“With Motivational Judo, you use the force of your own ego to kickstart your project and keep yourself moving.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“If we never get started, we never get good, and you can’t get good without first being bad.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“we fool ourselves into not starting. We dream of building a fortress when we should be starting with a cottage. We fool ourselves into procrastinating by exaggerating how much time we really need. We create mental blocks by imagining our work will follow a linear progression.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“given myself Permission to Suck.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“take the pressure off yourself and let yourself make a tiny start,”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“By giving myself permission to make a small investment in my art, I sometimes build momentum”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“When you Inflate the Investment, you prevent yourself from starting in the moment because you assume it’s too big a commitment. You assume you don’t have enough time. As a result, you cause yourself to procrastinate with something that’s a smaller commitment.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“When you Inflate the Investment, you prevent yourself from starting in the moment because you assume it’s too big a commitment. You assume you don’t have enough time.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“Instead of building a fortress, start with a cottage.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“let your dream be a guide.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“I did it by accepting that I wasn’t going to achieve the vision in my mind right away.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“Fortress Fallacy, because it’s as if we imagine that we will build a giant fortress when we’ve never laid a single brick in our lives.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. —Anatole France”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“That Which Pulls You Through is the thing that is so strong it can fuel you through the inevitable discomfort of making your art real.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“I made sure to connect with The Pump and get myself into the right mood for my writing sessions.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“Besides your curiosity, the voice in your head, and the feeling in your body, there’s one more powerful fuel source for finding the heart to start.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“Art is telepathy.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. —Eli Wiesel”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“It’s better to be right one time out of a hundred than to be right zero times out of zero.”
― David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating