"Be boring. (It’s the only way to get…" — Austin Kleon

"Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)"

— 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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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy… — Sebastian Bach
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but… — Tom Baker
I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you… — Christian Bale
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on… — Alan Ball
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything… — J. G. Ballard
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring. — Javier Bardem
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry

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