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- The opposite of anxiety isn’t calmness; it’s creativity.
from The ‘Brave’ Gremlin
- Anu Atluru writes:
“I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.”
from Notes on scale + quality
- “Keep coming back. It works if you work it, so work it, because you’re worth it.”
from "Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
- My reason is existential. By writing the things that pop into my head down into my notebook, I teach my brain that those ideas - my ideas - are worthy of being written down at all.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.from "Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
- “You’re not healing to handle the trauma, you know how to do that already. You’re healing to handle the joy.”
from A Big Intimate Catch Up:
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- Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
from Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
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- What are you being paid for? - The confidence that I have in my taste. And my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artist. I feel the same applies to design most of the times. A so called good eye, taste, good ideas / direction goes a long way. https://t.co/ixNWQomsju- Ask yourself, "What would I be doing differently if I KNEW FOR SURE I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT AS AN ARTIST?" Make a list of those things. This list is gold.
from if you really believed in yourself
