The Meaning in the Making Quotes

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“Our only business is our own integrity.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“Emotional intelligence is about being present with our emotions and able to quickly and accurately assess why they are there and what we need to be paying attention to.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“The dance of the Ego is learning, on the one hand, to ward off the possibility that it turns us into someone we don’t like and whose work has nothing to say, and on the other hand, it’s using our Ego as the fuel and confidence we need to keep going and to give us a direction for the things that we make.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“As “makers of things,” when the adulation comes in, we need to be our own “whispering voice” to bring balance by constantly reminding ourselves that we’re only human. No matter how great a painter, singer, writer, or filmmaker you are, you are fundamentally no better than anyone else, and this gift you have to give was meant to elevate others, not yourself.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“If you do what you do, for you alone, the way you think it should be done, you’re bulletproof.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“We won’t produce anything of worth if we are directed by the crowd because they will all want something different from us. Self-centredness—having an internally grounded belief in what you’re trying to do or say with your work—is essential if you’re going to make it.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“On the one hand, we are human beings with basic needs that must be met, and on the other hand, we are human beings who need to find a way to fit in with other human beings and balance our needs with theirs. Who you feel you are resides in your Ego, so it has a crucial role to play in the psyche. That makes it neither good nor bad, just necessary.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“Artists make a common mistake, especially when starting out, of thinking that individual style, or creative voice, comes from our chosen technique or the tools we choose to use. We have to avoid wasting too much time on these things and get to the bigger questions as early on in our creative journeys as we can; otherwise, we are in real danger of getting stuck “majoring on minors.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“A single figure walking in the liminal spaces where light and shadow meet.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“All art is Logos, and when one of us gets it right, even a little bit, the rest of us feel less alone. We are figuratively holding hands, admitting we won’t ultimately win our war against Entropy—and somehow that’s OK.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“The truth is that a negative emotion in us, more often than not, is pointing to something about ourselves that needs to change, and it won't go away until we deal with it.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“we make because we are constantly trying to pull Order from Chaos.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“We were never meant to resign ourselves to the idea that we represent only one side of that coin.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“Life isn’t fair, and the minute we get that through our heads and stop trying to control things we can’t, we can shed the fear and guilt that kills our motivation.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create