"Amateurs know that contributing something is better than……" — Austin Kleon

Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing. - Austin Kleon

"Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing."

— Austin Kleon

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57 Quotes by Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more…
If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd…
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They…
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to…
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody…
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some…
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of…

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More Amateurs Quotes

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I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
Jet lag is for amateurs. — Dick Clark
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. — Bruce Schneier
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this… — Gerald Brenan
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether. — Norman Mailer
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Amateurs hope. Professional work. — Garson Kanin

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