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Work Quotes by Austin Kleon
- If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying…
- There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
- Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you…
- Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among…
- Usually, when we talk about creativity, it’s about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone…
- That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the…
- What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.
- The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a…
- Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.
- Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood,…
- Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)
- Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.
- There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell