And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
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And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.
Don’t take yourself seriously, but do take your work seriously. Do what you say you’re going to do. If you don’t, you’ll lose respect for yourself. And if you don’t respect yourself, you’ll find it effortless to trespass across your own boundaries and violate all that you value.
23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
A big breakthrough for me – life as a whole – came when I figured out that making solid progress on creative work, and enjoying the process rather than hating it, is in large part a matter of being willing to be who you actually are.
My primary aim as a human is intertwined with my aims as a writer: I want the truth. I want to be ruthlessly honest with myself as a human and with my readers as a writer. I want to accept myself fully as I am in any moment while also working to unearth and expose the ways I’ve learned to survive, in order to find new ways to trust myself and the w
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Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
The most damaging lie I told myself was that people couldn’t love me for who I was, that it was necessary to divine what they wanted and play that part, instead of just being myself.
Not Somebody Else's Guy
I believe I’ve always been a sensitive, generous, and caring person—but too wound up in my own troubles to express that or to really be there for others