You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon
Austin Kleonaustinkleon.com
You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon
"It is not enough for a man to feel the divine flame burning in him; unless he goes into the concentrated, slogging business of learning the techniques of expression, his genius will be of no use to anyone." —Oswald Chambers
Matt Cardin • Tweet
rob hardy and added
I have seen the fate of those who have not lived their own lives, and it is simply horrible. People who live out their destiny and fulfill it to the best of their knowledge and abilities have no reason for regret.
— Carl Jung,
October 20, 1959
When you’re gone, your work shows who you were. Not your intentions. Not what you took in. Only what you put out.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
sari and added
Let a man do his duty first, without asking whether he will be happy or not, and happiness will be the inseparable accident which attends him. 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.'
Benjamin Jowett • The Republic
I didn’t realize it at the time, but that’s the best advice you could give anyone: make what’s missing
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Swiss Cheese, in the Heights, Wylie Dufresne, STORY, Owning Your Style, and the Fallow Periods
sari added
make what’s missing, from lin manuel miranda
If you have an idea of what you want to make, what you were put here to do, then just go and do that.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
Prashanth Narayan added
“You can either be judged because you created something or ignored because you left your greatness inside of you.”
James Clear • Haters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your Work
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added