An Audience of One Quotes

“Everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear is an environment. That environment is either adding energy or draining energy. It’s either inspiring you or expiring you,” said the Ultimate Game of Life founder Jim Bunch on an episode of The Unmistakable Creative.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Forget about the bestseller lists, the gallery openings, and the shining lights. The creation of fulfilling creative work is the result of losing yourself in the moment.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Every creator’s work is a mixture of the people they’ve spoken to, the books they’ve read, the art they’ve consumed, and the company they keep. However,”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Use these questions as a compass, but draw your own map.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Answer the following questions to explore your own values. I’ve put in my answers as examples:”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“To listen to yourself means to do creative work that’s in alignment with your own values. Decide who you want to be and what you want to create.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“make you feel something, then it’s a tall order to expect that it will do the same for someone else.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Listening to our values also makes the work more personal and, ultimately, more rewarding. If the work you do doesn’t excite you, if it doesn’t”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Listening to your values can not only amplify the impact of your work, but can also help you to find greater levels of joy and fulfillment in the process.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Discovering our own truth and embracing it begins with evaluating our values.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Trust yourself, listen to your values, learn to be present, and cultivate solitude.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Learning to listen to yourself begins with questioning what you’re told.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“LADY GAGA When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Flow puts us into a state of almost unparalleled joy. The process becomes so intrinsically rewarding that we’re able to easily detach from the outcome. Flow not only makes time fly by, but leads to disproportionate increases in creative output.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“BRENÉ BROWN We are born makers, and creativity is the ultimate act of integration—it is how we fold our experiences into our being.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Creativity makes us happier and our happiness increases our creativity.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“DAVID BOWIE If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Expressing ourselves creatively is a form of self-care in many ways. It gives us the opportunity for self-reflection. And as we build our creative skills, we build confidence. Many therapists even prescribe creative expression to their patients for healing purposes.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“DAVID BOWIE I’ve become more and more selfish about what it is I want to do, what I find satisfying. Because if you make yourself happy, a little bit of that sunshine can spread onto others.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Everyday creativity “allows people to explore their identities, form new relationships, cultivate competence, and reflect critically on the world. In turn, the new knowledge, self-insight, and relationships serve as sources of strength and resilience.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“A number of research studies have proved a strong link between creativity and happiness.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“SARAH JOY SHOCKEY Anything you create that brings you joy or even frustration shapes you into someone with experience.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“MADELEINE L’ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint or clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“We must learn to let go of our attachments and expectations if we’re going to derive satisfaction”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“he has kept his day job. He feels it is his dharma, or calling, to be in business.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Creativity is about showing up to make your “art,” whatever it might be, a habit.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“I’ve divided the book into four sections: how to listen to creativity, how to listen to yourself, how to listen to your environment, and how to listen to others constructively.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“The creative process parallels listening—in fact, it is a form of listening: listening to ourselves and finding a desire to create without external pressure. It requires us to pay attention, to be alert to our environment, ourselves, other people, to stay open, engaged, and curious.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“Focused on the process, our creative life retains a sense of adventure. Focused on the product, the same creative life can feel foolish or barren.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake

“As a creator, your job is to commit to becoming the best version of you. If you’re a better version of yourself today than you were yesterday, that’s progress.”
― Srinivas Rao, An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake