
Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life

you can’t make art without an opinion.
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
Don’t think, don’t rationalize, just do. Start and don’t stop—cuz momentum is your friend.
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
Craft takes concentration, excellence takes time.
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
For great artists, writers, scientists, the process of creation is the reward. The process of learning and growing, and all the intermittent victories and defeats are the reward. Learn to enjoy struggle. The reward will take care of itself.
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
You know what’s better than perfect? Done. Done is better than perfect.
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
Creativity wants to let go of control and to present authenticity and vulnerability. This is what moves others. This is attractive. Complete conviction makes great work.
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
What time and patience have taught me is the truth of that beautiful line: If you focus on the reward, you’ll never be happy. The fruit—the money, the fame, the whatever—will never be enough. Even further, focusing on the reward means not focusing on the work.
Danielle LaPorte • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life
“You are not entitled to the fruit of your labor—only the labor itself.”