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> [“Don’t listen to your friends who tell you they like leaving their work at work. They don’t have the same dream you do. They want the comfortable thing. You want the great thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/don-t-listen-to-your-friends-who-tell-you-they-like-leaving-their/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

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## More by Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

> [“Play and experimentation loosens our grip on life and allows for more chance luck to surprise us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/play-and-experimentation-loosens-our-grip-on-life-and-allows-for-more/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [“Though it sounds vulgar, selling something that should be a gift is precisely what prostitution is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/though-it-sounds-vulgar-selling-something-that-should-be-a-gift-is/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [“Don’t let your day job take over your life simply because it has a more immediate payoff.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/don-t-let-your-day-job-take-over-your-life-simply-because-it-has-a/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [ “\[Henson:\] I didn’t call him a frog. \[Interviewer:\] Right, he was just Kermit the thing. \[Henson:\] Yeah, all the characters in those days were… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/henson-i-didn-t-call-him-a-frog-interviewer-right-he-was-just-kermit/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [“We intuitively reject art when the cost to make it is less than the cost to buy it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/we-intuitively-reject-art-when-the-cost-to-make-it-is-less-than-the/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [“try to picture yourself becoming more like this—like Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill only to see it fall back down, knowing you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/try-to-picture-yourself-becoming-more-like-this-like-sisyphus-pushing/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [ “The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal or looking at one’s accumulated wealth.”\[28\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/the-feeling-of-accomplishment-is-more-real-and-satisfying-than/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [“Don’t listen to your friends who tell you they like leaving their work at work. They don’t have the same dream you do. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/don-t-listen-to-your-friends-who-tell-you-they-like-leaving-their/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [“What ambitious story could you turn your life into? You can’t start over. You have to use only what’s in the toolbox—and make art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/what-ambitious-story-could-you-turn-your-life-into-you-can-t-start/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

> [“For art to truly affect us, it needs to be, in a sense, “given.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/for-art-to-truly-affect-us-it-needs-to-be-in-a-sense-given/)

[Elizabeth Hyde Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hyde-stevens/)

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