A quote by Jack London
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A quote by Jack London
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it. He knows that when the Muse sees his butt in the chair, she will deliver.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. —Frank Tibolt
Nat Pryce • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))
“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process... See more
All the best ideas come out of the process... See more
Call attention to yourself with some sort of creative action, and—most of all—trust that if you make enough of a glorious commotion, eventually inspiration will find its way home to you again.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU